Key facts
- Right ascension
- 01 15 12.0
- Declination
- +60 ° 08 ′ 00 ″
- Distance
- 6.5 kly (2.0 kpc )
- Mass
- 479 +810, −301 M ☉
- Estimated age
- 65 Myr
- Other designations
- C 0112+598, OCISM 71, OCl 319, [KPR2004b] 16, [KPS2012] MWSC 0110.
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- open cluster
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Distance from Earth
- 2000
- Image
- NGC 433.jpg
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- catalog code
- [KPS2012] MWSC 0110
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1829-09-29
- right ascension
- 18.800
- declination
- 60.133
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- -36.91
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -5.70
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.37
- Commons category
- NGC 433
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 433 is an open cluster in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, located at a distance of 6,500 light years from the Sun. It was discovered on September 29, 1829, by John Herschel, and was described by John Dreyer as "cluster, small, a little compressed." The cluster is considered on the poor side, with only 12 stars above magnitude 16. It has a linear diameter of 26.3 ly, with around 479 times the mass of the Sun and an age of 65 million years.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 433” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.