Talk:NGC 2264

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Snowflake Cluster redirect
I redirected "Snowflake Cluster" to point to NGC 2264. The Snowflake Cluster article previously consisted mainly of text copied and pasted from the 2005 Spitzer press release, and the designation "Snowflake Cluster" is used almost nowhere other than in that press release and other pages based on it. It doesn't seem necessary to have a separate page for the Snowflake Cluster, which is really just a part of NGC 2264. Aldebarium (talk) 18:21, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The article is very confusing, referring to both a 'snowflake cluster' and a 'snowflake nebula' (in the image caption). It also says "For a cluster to be considered a Snowflake, it must remain in the original location the star was formed. " Which is essentially meaningless. Could someone with better understanding of these objects tidy the article up? Stub Mandrel (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Source [7] is wrong
1. When taking a look on W. Herschels original Catalouge, one can find a star cluster discovered in 01/1784 and another object (the nebula) discovered in 12/1785. 2. The original NGC by Dreyer notes: "Open cluster** ?neb?" 3. The modern revisited NGC (2021, by Steinicke) points out "type 4 = open cluster".

So Herschel discovered 2 objects (other than said in source 7) Dreyer was shure about the cluster when compiling the NGC, not about the nebula, so het attached the "?". The modern NGC sets NGC 2264 as type 4 'open cluster'. So the source is wrong, according to primary sources and so the wikipedia-article is wrong. NGC 2264 referes only to that cluster and the nebula is not listed within the NGC directly. 94.216.213.136 (talk) 02:39, 6 March 2022 (UTC)