Der offene sternhaufen NGC 2362

Abstract

The very young open star cluster NGC 2362 was investigated by the strip method on charts of two photographs taken with the 1-m Schmidt telescope of the European Southern Observatory. Up to the limiting magnitudeM ^*_v =5 ^m_. 8 the cluster contains 100 stars and can be described by the Gaussian density law (6). Further results are: Mass$\mathfrak{M}$ = 246$\mathfrak{M}$ _⊙, central mass densityρ ₀ = 43.1$\mathfrak{M}$ = 246$\mathfrak{M}$ _⊙ pc^-3 , radiusR≈2.6 pc, mean velocity of the stars$\bar \upsilon$ = 0.64 km s⁻¹.