This teaching material, "Color-magnitude diagram of star clusters", is designed to be used in the following three ways as standard, but the Teachers' Guide is common. [2012-03-25]
(word file)
globular cluster
NGC362 (age: 8.3 Gyr)
HST WFPC2 data
camera rotation angle: 141 degree
calibrated (sky-level, [BV] level adjusted) 2.6MB each
B ( CCD#1, CCD#2, CCD#3, CCD#4),
V ( CCD#1, CCD#2, CCD#3, CCD#4)
field of view: 30' x 30' (93kB, gif)
apparent magnitude (sorry, in Japanese)
main sequence stars of an open cluster
(word file)
open cluster
M38 (NGC1912, age: 320 Myr)
Kiso Obs. 2KCCD data
calibrated (sky-level, [BV] level adjusted, trimmed)
field of view:
30'x30' (158kB gif),
60'x60' (165kB gif),
120'x120' (418kB png)
apparent magnitude (sorry, in Japanese)
sample result (gif) (absolute magnitude)
(word file)
Download data of both clusters
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