Platais 8 cluster (original) (raw)

Cl Platais 8 (a Carinae; HIP 45080 Cluster) is a small and faint open cluster located in the southern constellation Carina. SIMBAD lists the cluster having 28,185 members but the majority of the stars are field stars. In fact, there are only 32 members physically associated with the cluster. Cl Platais 8 is rather young, with an age of only 30 million years. Despite being named after a Carinae, the star is younger than the cluster and has kinematics that differ from the stars in the association.