(also known as the IC 2391 Omicron Velorum Cluster or Caldwell 85) is an open cluster in the constellation Vela. The Persian astronomer Al Sufi may have first described it about 964. It was found by Abbe Lacaille and cataloged as Lac II 5.
The cluster is about 500
light-years away from Earth and can be seen with the naked eye. It contains about 30 stars with a total visual magnitude of 2.5, spread out along 50 arcminutes. The cluster appears to be about the same age as the open cluster IC 2602, and has a [1 ] lithium depletion boundary age of about 50 million years. [2 ]
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^ Stauffer, J.R. et al. (1997). "Rotational Velocities and Chromospheric/Coronal Activity of Low-Mass Stars in the Young Open Clusters IC 2391 and IC 2602". Astrophysical Journal 479 (2): 776. Bibcode: 1997ApJ...479..776S. doi: 10.1086/303930.
^ Barrado y Navascues, D., Stauffer, J.R., & Jayawardhana, R. (2002). "Spectroscopy of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in IC 2391: Lithium Depletion and Hα Emission". Astrophysical Journal 614 (1): 386–397. arXiv: astro-ph/0406436. Bibcode: 2004ApJ...614..386B. doi: 10.1086/423485.
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Coordinates: 08 h 40 m 18 s, −52° 54′ 60″