The Age of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cluster NGC 1651

Stetson, Peter B.; Graham, John A.; Mould, Jeremy R.; Huchra, John; Han, Mingsheng; Gibson, Brad; Madore, Barry; Rawson, Daya

Australia, United States, Canada

Abstract

The age of NGC 1651 is 1.6 +/- 0.4 billion yr. This letter shows that accurate age determinations of young LMC clusters are achievable with aperture photometry of Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images taken in a single orbit of the HST.

Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

1997 The Astrophysical Journal
eHST 11