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tag-puppis-constellation tag-sigma-1121 tag-sirius tag-t-f-morris tag-william-herschel"> <div class="entry-header" ><div class="nv-title-meta-wrap"><small class="nv--yoast-breadcrumb neve-breadcrumbs-wrapper"><span><span><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/">Home</a></span> » <span class="breadcrumb_last" aria-current="page">Messier 47</span></span></small><h1 class="title entry-title">Messier 47</h1><ul class="nv-meta-list"><li class="meta author vcard no-mobile"><span class="author-name fn">by <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/author/admin/" title="Posts by admin" rel="author">admin</a></span></li><li class="meta date posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-05-28T03:37:49+00:00" content="2015-05-28">May 28, 2015</time><time class="updated" datetime="2020-11-13T13:07:03+00:00">November 13, 2020</time></li></ul></div></div><div class="nv-content-wrap entry-content"><p>Messier 47 (M47) is a bright open star cluster located in the southern constellation <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/puppis-constellation/">Puppis</a>. The cluster lies at a distance of 1,600 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 4.2. It has the designation NGC 2422 in the New General Catalogue.<br /> <span id="more-772"></span><br /> Messier 47 occupies an area of 30 arc minutes of apparent sky, corresponding to a linear diameter of 12 light years. The cluster’s apparent size is roughly the same as that of the full Moon. Its estimated age is 78 million years. The cluster is visible to the naked eye in dark, clear skies and appears as a hazy patch of nebulosity.</p> <p>Messier 47 is quite easy to find as it is positioned 12 degrees to the east and 2 degrees to the north of <a href="https://www.star-facts.com/sirius/">Sirius</a>, the brightest star in the sky, located in the constellation <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/canis-major-constellation/">Canis Major</a>. The cluster can also be found about 5 degrees south of Alpha Monocerotis, an orange giant in the constellation <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/monoceros-constellation/">Monoceros</a>, the Unicorn.</p> <p>The cluster is easily resolved in 10×50 binoculars, which reveal its brightest stars. Larger binoculars and small telescopes show many dimmer stars in M47, while 6-inch telescopes reveal a loose cluster with many bright and faint stars spread across an area 30 arc minutes in diameter.</p> <figure id="attachment_780" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-780" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-780" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47.jpg" alt="m47,ngc 2422" width="600" height="579" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47.jpg 1061w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47-300x290.jpg 300w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47-1024x988.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-780" class="wp-caption-text">This spectacular image of the star cluster Messier 47 was taken using the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This young open cluster is dominated by a sprinkling of brilliant blue stars but also contains a few contrasting red giant stars. Image: ESO</figcaption></figure> <p>The cluster is located close to <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-46/">Messier 46</a>, a considerably older and more distant open cluster. <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-46/">M46</a> has significantly more stars, but appears much dimmer because it lies at a greater distance from Earth. <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-46/">M46</a> lies about a degree to the southeast of M47. The two clusters can be seen in the same field of view in binoculars and small telescopes. Another cluster, NGC 2423, which lies just 0.5 degrees north of M47, is also visible in the same view.</p> <p>Messier 47 contains about 50 members, which makes it one of the least densely populated open clusters known. The cluster contains many luminous blue stars and a few older red giants. The brightest stars in M47 have a visual magnitude of 5.7. The single brightest star in the cluster is of the spectral type B2. The cluster also contains two K-type orange giants, each about 200 times more luminous than the Sun.</p> <p>A close binary star, Sigma 1121, lies near the centre of M47. It is composed of two magnitude 7.9 stars that are separated by 7.4 arc seconds.</p> <figure id="attachment_781" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-781" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M47.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-781" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M47.jpg" alt="messier 47,open cluster,puppis" width="600" height="604" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M47.jpg 1017w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M47-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M47-298x300.jpg 298w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M47-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-781" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 47. Atlas Image mosaic obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.</figcaption></figure> <p>Messier 47 has a density of about 16 stars per cubic parsec in the central region and the overall average density of just 0.62 stars per cubic parsec. The cluster is receding from us at 9 km/s.</p> <p>The cluster was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654. Hodierna described it as “a Nebulosa between the two dogs.” His discovery, however, did not come to light until the 1980s because his work was largely forgotten for a few centuries.</p> <p>Charles Messier independently discovered the cluster on February 19, 1771. He described it as a “cluster of stars, little distant from the preceding; the stars are greater; the middle of the cluster was compared with the same star, 2 Navis. The cluster contains no nebulosity.”</p> <p>There is no cluster at the coordinates provided by Messier, but the position corresponds to that of the open cluster NGC 2422. M47 was considered a lost Messier object before the Canadian astronomer T. F. Morris discovered that Messier’s 47th catalogue entry and NGC 2422 were the same cluster. Morris also identified the missing <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-48/">Messier 48</a>.</p> <p>In October 1960, American astronomer Owen Gingerich explained the confusion:</p> <blockquote><p>More explicit reasons for this identification [of M47 with NGC 2422] were given independently in 1959 by T.F. Morris, a member of the Messier Club of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Montreal Centre. Dr. Morris suggested that an error in signs in the difference between M47 and the comparison star could account for the position.</p> <p>Messier determined the declination of a nebula or cluster by measuring the difference between the object and a comparison star of known declination. The right ascension could be found by recording the times at which the object and the star drifted across a central wire in his telescope’s field; the time interval gives the difference in right ascension. The differences between Messier’s 1770 [actually 1771] position for M47 and his stated comparison star, 2 Navis (now 2 Puppis), if applied with opposite signs, leads to NGC 2422. Clearly, Messier made a mistake in computation!</p></blockquote> <p>In spite of Messier’s erroneous coordinates, Caroline Herschel was able to identify M47 on more than one occasion in 1783.</p> <figure id="attachment_775" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-775" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M46-and-M47.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-775" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M46-and-M47.jpg" alt="Messier 46 and Messier 47. Image: Wikisky" width="600" height="600" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M46-and-M47.jpg 800w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M46-and-M47-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M46-and-M47-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/M46-and-M47-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-775" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 46 and Messier 47. Image: Wikisky</figcaption></figure> <p>William Herschel discovered the cluster independently on February 4, 1785 and catalogued it as H VIII.38. He described it as a “cluster of pretty compressed large and small stars. Round. Above 15′ diameter.“</p> <p>John Herschel added the cluster to the General Catalogue as GC 1594, noting, “The chief star of a large, pretty rich, straggling cluster. It is double.“</p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">FACTS</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Object: Cluster </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Type: Open </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Designations: Messier 47, M47, NGC 2422, Collinder 152, C 0734-143, OCl 596.0, MWSC 1278 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Constellation: <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/puppis-constellation/">Puppis</a> </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Right ascension: 07h 36.6m </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Declination: -14°30′ </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Distance: 1,600 light years (490 parsecs) </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Age: 78 million years </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Number of stars: 50 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Apparent magnitude: +4.2 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Apparent dimensions: 30′ </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Radius: 6 light years </strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 style="text-align: center;">LOCATION</h3> <figure id="attachment_779" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-779" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47-location.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-779" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47-location.png" alt="m47 location,messier 47 position,find messier 47,where is m47" width="600" height="755" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47-location.png 813w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Messier-47-location-238x300.png 238w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-779" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 47 location. Image: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)</figcaption></figure> </div><div class="nv-tags-list"><span>Tags:</span><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/alpha-monocerotis/ title="Alpha Monocerotis" class=alpha-monocerotis rel="tag">Alpha Monocerotis</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/caroline-herschel/ title="Caroline Herschel" class=caroline-herschel rel="tag">Caroline Herschel</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/collinder-152/ title="Collinder 152" class=collinder-152 rel="tag">Collinder 152</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/gc-1594/ title="GC 1594" class=gc-1594 rel="tag">GC 1594</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/giovanni-battista-hodierna/ title="Giovanni Battista Hodierna" class=giovanni-battista-hodierna rel="tag">Giovanni Battista Hodierna</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/h-viii-38/ title="H VIII.38" class=h-viii-38 rel="tag">H VIII.38</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/john-herschel/ title="John Herschel" class=john-herschel rel="tag">John Herschel</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m46/ title="M46" class=m46 rel="tag">M46</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m47/ title="M47" class=m47 rel="tag">M47</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/messier-46/ title="Messier 46" class=messier-46 rel="tag">Messier 46</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/messier-47/ title="Messier 47" class=messier-47 rel="tag">Messier 47</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/ngc-2422/ title="NGC 2422" class=ngc-2422 rel="tag">NGC 2422</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/ngc-2423/ title="NGC 2423" class=ngc-2423 rel="tag">NGC 2423</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/owen-gingerich/ title="Owen Gingerich" class=owen-gingerich rel="tag">Owen Gingerich</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/puppis-constellation/ title="Puppis Constellation" class=puppis-constellation rel="tag">Puppis Constellation</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/sigma-1121/ title="Sigma 1121" class=sigma-1121 rel="tag">Sigma 1121</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/sirius/ title="Sirius" class=sirius rel="tag">Sirius</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/t-f-morris/ title="T. F. Morris" class=t-f-morris rel="tag">T. F. 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