HIP 60974 (NGC 4463 Open Cluster) [#1386210572]
This system is located at:
2927.71875
/ -119.6875
/ 1734.375
Galactic coordinates:
R: 3,404.984 / l: 300.642 / b: -2.014
Equatorial coordinates:
Right ascension: 12h 29m 55.448s /
Declination: -64° 47'25.694''
Reserve level: Pristine
Habitable zone:
Metal-rich body (6 to 450 ls), Earth-like world (7,087 to 10,628 ls), Water world (5,811 to 22,505 ls), Ammonia world (14,703 to 40,008 ls), Terraformable (5,520 to 11,013 ls)
Estimated value: 50,048 cr
This system was visited for the first time on EDSM by Alessandro Ciapina on Nov 8, 2016, 9:08:49 PM.
It was named by the Galactic Mapping Project with the name of: NGC 4463 Open Cluster
48 ships passed through HIP 60974 space, including 0 ship in the last 7 days.
0 ship passed through HIP 60974 space in the last 24 hours.
Lying 3,400 light years from the bubble is an open cluster of more than 25 systems dominated by a pair of 8th magnitude stars, HIP 60974 at its center and HIP 60993 at its end. At an apparent magnitude of about 7.2, the cluster is not rich, but does display a very nice zig-zag line of 10, 11 and 12th magnitude stars running through HIP 60974 from northeast to southwest.
While there are a few M & K class stars nearby, the NGC 4463 Open Cluster is a galactic anomaly because of its apparent location in a relatively vacant part of Orion Spur on the fringes of the Sagittarius Gap. The stars that make up the cluster likely formed as an echo of a violent supernova explosion whose glowing gases have since blown away, leaving only these relatively massive B and F class stars. Moreover, the cluster is unique because it contains stars from numerous catalog designations: Bonner Durchmusterung / HIP / and 2MASS.
Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1847 at the Cape of Good Hope with an 18-inch f/13 speculum telescope, he described it as follows: “Cluster VIII class; poor; scattered. The northern of two stars 8th mag taken.”
