A Possible New and Very Remote Galactic Cluster
Abstract
The discovery of ten faint, dust-reddened stars, several of them probable M supergiants, in a 1.5 x 3 arcmin area of sky is reported. A very provisional distance for the stars is 30 kpc. If this is a galactic cluster whose main sequence can ever be identified in a color-magnitude diagram, it is a potential galactic rotation point at very large distance (longitude 26 deg).
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- June 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1086/115464
- Bibcode:
- 1990AJ.....99.1867S
- Keywords:
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- Galactic Clusters;
- M Stars;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Supergiant Stars;
- Color-Magnitude Diagram;
- Faint Objects;
- Galactic Rotation;
- Interstellar Extinction;
- Main Sequence Stars;
- Stellar Magnitude;
- Astronomy;
- CLUSTERS: OPEN;
- GALAXIES: THE GALAXY