Key facts
- Right ascension
- 10 02 42
- Declination
- −60 ° 06 ′ 0 ″
- Apparent magnitude v
- + 4.2
- Other designations
- Cr 215
- Constellation
- Carina
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q636435” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.