Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Puppis (Pup)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2439
NGC 2439, Lawrence E. Hazel
NGC 2439
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 2439

NGC 2439, Lawrence E. Hazel
NGC 2439
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 2439

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

NGC 2439 is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Puppis It has an apparent magnitude of 6.9, an angular size of 10 arcminutes and is visible using a small telescope. This cluster is about 3.855kpc from the Solar System and has an age of about 10 million years. Observationally, this cluster is along the line of sight of two groups of B-type supergiant stars. The nearer group is located at a distance of1.03 kpc, while the second group is at 3.2 kpc.

Despite it's fairly young age the cluster contains at least two evolved supergiant stars, R Puppis and and V384 Pup. R Pup is a slightly variable yellow supergiant and is the brightest star in the cluster and V384 Pup is a red supergiant long period variable.

Comments