Floor 1

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Open star cluster
floor 1
AladinLite
Constellation Fox
Position
equinox : J2000.0
Right ascension 19 h 35.8 m
declination + 25 ° 13.0 ′
Appearance

Brightness  (visual) 5.3 mag
Angular expansion 1 degree
Number of stars approx. 40-158
Brightest star BD + 25 ° 3877, 7.1 mag
Redness ( excess color  E (BV)) 0.15
Physical data

distance  1000 ly
(300 pc )
history
Discovered by Jürgen Stock
Discovery time 1954
Catalog names
 C 1933 + 251 • OCl 127 •

Floor 1 is an open star cluster in the constellation Fox that can be observed with binoculars . The star cluster consists of about 40 single stars from the 7th magnitude and is about 1000 light years away.

The star cluster is part of the Stock catalog (compiled by Jürgen Stock ). It was not included in the Messier , NGC and IC catalogs .

See also

  • Floor 2 , open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia (Cas)

literature

  • Christian B. Luginbuhl, Brian A. Skiff: Observing Handbook and Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects , Cambridge University Press, 1998. p. 282. ISBN 978-0-521-62556-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Y. Sano: A New Study of the Open Cluster Stock 1 . MS Thesis - Central Michigan Univ.