NGC 3532
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NGC 3532 (Caldwell 91),[1] also commonly known as the Pincushion Cluster,[2][3][4][1] Football Cluster,[5][6] the Black Arrow Cluster,[7] or the Wishing Well Cluster,[8][9][10][11] is an open cluster some 405 parsecs from Earth[12] in the constellation Carina. Its population of approximately 150 stars of 7th magnitude or fainter includes seven red giants[13] and seven white dwarfs.[14][15] On 20 May 1990 it became the first target ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. A line from Beta Crucis through Delta Crucis passes somewhat to the north of NGC 3532. The cluster lies between the constellation Crux and the larger but fainter "False Cross" asterism. The 4th-magnitude Cepheid variable star x Carinae (V382 Car) appears near the southeast fringes, but it lies between the Sun and the cluster and is not a member of the cluster.
The cluster was first catalogued by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1752.[16] It was admired by John Herschel, who thought it one of the finest star clusters in the sky,[17][18] with many double stars (binary stars).[19]
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- ↑ Stephen James O'Meara, The Caldwell Objects, Cambridge University Press, Template:ISBN, p. 358–360.
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- ↑ Amateur Astronomer Association of New York, Nebula of the Month – Carina's Football
- ↑ IceInSpace - Australian Amateur Astronomy, Challenge Objects – June 2005, 2005
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- ↑ Claria, J.J., Lapasset, E., (1988) "A UBV and DDO astrophysical study of the open cluster NGC3532", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 235, 1129–1139
- ↑ Reimers, D., Koester, D., (1989) "Spectroscopic identification of white dwarfs in galactic clusters. V – NGC 3532", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 218, 118–122
- ↑ Dobbie, P., Day-Jones, A., Williams, K., Casewell, S., Burleigh, M., Lodieu, N., Parker, Q., Baxter, R. (2012) "Further investigation of white dwarfs in the open clusters NGC2287 and NGC3532", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423, 2815–2828
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- ↑ Deep Sky Observer's Companion – the online database, DOCdb Lacaille II.10
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- ↑ ScienceDaily, "A colorful gathering of middle-aged stars", European Southern Observatory, 26 November 2014
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