NGC 6735
(MWSC 3034; FoF 2119)
0.96
UTI
0.81
CN
1.0
Cdens
1.0
CC3
1.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members)
6.3 [arcmin]
- CN 0.81 Rich
- Cdens 1.0 Very dense
- CC3 1.0 Very high quality
- Clit 1.0 Very well-studied
- Cdup 1.0 Unique
Overview
NGC 6735 is a rich, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a moderate distance, below the mid-plane, affected by moderate extinction. It is catalogued as a near-solar metallicity, intermediate-age cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the age and mass parameters (see Parameters). It is very well-studied in the literature.
Relatively close
Moderate extinction
Near-solar metallicity
Intermediate age
Data
| Reference | Year | RA [deg] | DEC [deg] | Plx [mas] | pmRA [mas/yr] | pmDE [mas/yr] | Rv [km/s] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCC | β | 285.161 | -0.49 | 0.424 | 0.079 | -1.311 | 6.153 |
| Li et al. | 2025 | 285.155 | -0.498 | 0.416 | 0.072 | -1.274 | β |
| Almeida et al. | 2025 | 285.156 | -0.513 | β | β | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2024 | 285.141 | -0.512 | 0.423 | 0.068 | -1.311 | 1.885 |
| Cavallo et al. | 2024 | 285.158 | -0.496 | 0.424 | β | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2023 | 285.141 | -0.512 | 0.423 | 0.068 | -1.311 | 1.885 |
| Just et al. | 2023 | 285.128 | -0.471 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2021 | 285.156 | -0.513 | 0.42 | 0.063 | -1.27 | 14.982 |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2020 | 285.155 | -0.498 | 0.416 | 0.072 | -1.274 | β |
| SΓ‘nchez et al. | 2020 | 285.154 | -0.475 | β | -0.015 | -1.135 | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin & Anders | 2020 | 285.155 | -0.498 | 0.416 | 0.072 | -1.274 | β |
| Liu & Pang | 2019 | 285.164 | -0.501 | 0.462 | 0.084 | -1.282 | β |
| Soubiran et al. | 2018 | 285.155 | -0.498 | β | β | β | 7.04 |
| Bica et al. | 2019 | 285.157 | -0.472 | β | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2018 | 285.155 | -0.498 | 0.416 | 0.072 | -1.274 | β |
| Loktin & Popova | 2017 | 285.135 | -0.47 | β | 1.973 | -4.915 | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2016 | 285.128 | -0.471 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2014 | 285.154 | -0.475 | β | 1.0 | -1.71 | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2013 | 285.135 | -0.47 | β | 1.14 | -3.86 | β |
| Dias et al. | 2002 | 285.154 | -0.475 | β | 1.0 | -1.71 | β |
π‘ Note: The UCC values are estimated from its identified members.
| Reference | Year | Dist [kpc] | Av [mag] | DAv [mag] | Age [Myr] | [Fe/H] [dex] | Mass [Msun] | Bfr | BSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Li et al. | 2025 | 1.93 | 1.83 | β | 598 | 0.349 | β | β | β |
| Almeida et al. | 2025 | 1.98 | 2.35 | β | 292 | β | 776 | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2024 | β | β | β | β | β | 3102* | β | β |
| Cavallo et al. | 2024 | 2.31 | 2.68 | β | 129 | 0.230 | β | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2023 | 2.21 | 2.52 | 1.54 | 116 | β | β | β | β |
| Just et al. | 2023 | β | β | β | 195 | β | 349 | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2021 | 1.98 | 2.35 | β | 292 | -0.067 | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2020 | 2.38 | 1.74 | β | 245 | β | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin & Anders | 2020 | 2.25 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
| Liu & Pang | 2019 | β | β | β | 676 | 0.250 | β | β | β |
| Soubiran et al. | 2018 | 2.25 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2018 | 2.25 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
| Loktin & Popova | 2017 | 2.62 | 2.10 | β | 214 | β | β | β | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2016 | 2.21 | 2.65 | β | 195 | β | β | β | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2013 | 2.21 | 2.65 | β | 195 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2002 | 1.47 | 2.70 | β | 501 | β | β | β | β |
(*): Indicates that this parameter is assigned more than one value in the corresponding reference.


Almeida et al. (2025)
Mass determination: intermediate fit. Isochrone match: intermediate fit. Silver sample.
Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.