NGC 3114 [SEP] constellation
NGC 3114
NGC 3114 is a sparse open cluster which is projected onto the outskirts of the Carina complex.
Because of the high number of field stars from the disc of the Milky Way, it is very difficult object to study as this contamination makes its size ambiguous.
Studies of NGC 3114.
NGC 3114 has first been subject of studies in 1963, when Jankowitz and McCosh obtained photographic UBV photometry for 171 of its stars and photoelectric UBV photometry of 52 stars. They estimated the cluster to be 910 parsecs
a prime supernova candidate for the next several hundred thousand years because it has reached the end of its estimated million-year life span.
NGC 2516 is an open cluster that is both quite large (approximately half a degree square) and bright, visible to the unaided eye. It is located 1100 light-years from Earth and has approximately 80 stars, the brightest of which is a red giant star of magnitude 5.2. NGC 3114 is another open cluster approximately of the same size, though it is more distant at