IC 2714

It is a rich to moderately rich, intermediate-brightness, detached cluster with Trumpler type II2r or II3m. There are 494 probable member stars within the angular radius of the cluster and 215 within the central part of the cluster.{{cite journal|last1=Kharchenko|first1=N. V.|last2=Piskunov|first2=A. E.|last3=Schilbach|first3=E.|last4=Röser|first4=S.|last5=Scholz|first5=R.-D.|title=Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|date=3 October 2013|volume=558|pages=A53|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201322302|url=ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/A%2BA/558/A53/catalog.dat|arxiv = 1308.5822 |bibcode = 2013A&A...558A..53K |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312135436/ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/A+A/558/A53/catalog.dat|archive-date=2020-03-12|url-status=dead|s2cid=118548517}} The tidal radius of the cluster is 6.3 - 8.7 parsecs (21 - 28 light years) and represents the average outer limit of IC 2714, beyond which a star is unlikely to remain gravitationally bound to the cluster core. The core of the cluster is estimated to be 5.9 light years across.

The brightest stars of the cluster are of 11th magnitude and the brightest main sequence stars are of late B of A type. Two blue stragglers have been detected in the cluster,{{cite journal|last1=Ahumada|first1=J. A.|last2=Lapasset|first2=E.|title=New catalogue of blue stragglers in open clusters|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|date=20 November 2006|volume=463|issue=2|pages=789–797|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20054590|url=ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/A%2BA/463/789/table8.dat|bibcode=2007A&A...463..789A|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031050746/ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/J/A+A/463/789/table8.dat|archive-date=2020-10-31|url-status=dead|doi-access=free}} one variable star and eleven red giants.{{cite journal|last1=Claria|first1=J. J.|last2=Mermilliod|first2=J.-C.|last3=Piatti|first3=A. E.|last4=Minniti|first4=D.|title=Photometric and CORAVEL observations of stars in the open cluster IC 2714.|journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement|date=October 1994|volume=107|pages=39–49|url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/?#abs/1994A%26AS..107...39C|language=en|bibcode=1994A&AS..107...39C}} The turn-off mass of the cluster is estimated to be at 3.1 {{solar mass|link=yes}}.{{cite journal|last1=Delgado Mena|first1=E.|last2=Tsantaki|first2=M.|last3=Sousa|first3=S. G.|last4=Kunitomo|first4=M.|last5=Adibekyan|first5=V.|last6=Zaworska|first6=P.|last7=Santos|first7=N. C.|last8=Israelian|first8=G.|last9=Lovis|first9=C.|title=Searching for Li-rich giants in a sample of 12 open clusters|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|date=17 February 2016|volume=587|pages=A66|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201527196|arxiv=1512.05296|bibcode=2016A&A...587A..66D|s2cid=119221224}} The cluster has the same metallicity as the Sun.{{cite journal|last1=Santos|first1=N. C.|last2=Lovis|first2=C.|last3=Pace|first3=G.|last4=Melendez|first4=J.|last5=Naef|first5=D.|title=Metallicities for 13 nearby open clusters from high-resolution spectroscopy of dwarf and giant stars|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|date=20 November 2008|volume=493|issue=1|pages=309–316|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:200811093|arxiv=0811.2392|bibcode=2009A&A...493..309S|s2cid=17774555}}

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