Inside
this site, the reader can find information about the following topics:
Generality
about Open Star Clusters
Relations between
Photometry and Spectroscopy
Information about
Interstellar Extinction and its treatment
Definition of
the reddening line locus
Information
about the UBV wideband photometric system
Application
of UBV wideband photometric system to Open Clusters studies
Information about
Two-Color and Color-Magnitude diagrams as fundamental photometry tools
Information
about usage of Two-Color and Color-Magnitude diagrams, in solving an Open
Clusters photometric analysis
The
Two-Color diagram as fundamental tool in determining the average E(B-V) value
Dereddening
techniques and determination of the individual reddening values for cluster
members
The
unreddened Color-Magnitude diagram as fundamental tool in determining Open
Clusters distance modulus
Information
about stars Empirical Calibrations and their use in Open Clusters Studies.
Possibility
of reach and download a sort of laboratory tool, whose goal is: to approach
the advance amateur to the linear and polynomials interpolations tecniques
and their applications to Open Clusters studies
Possibility
of reach and download a free and very complete code devoted to Open Clusters
studies, whose use allow us to obtain the following results for cluster members:
Members
Intrinsic colors
Members
Effective temperatures
Clusters
distance modulus
Absolute
and bolometric magnitudes of members
Brightness
of members
Radii
of members
Cluster
Age
Cluster
metallicity gradient
Cluster
luminosity function ( LF )
Cluster
present day mass function ( PDMF )
Members
lying into different HR diagram instability strips
