- the study of intermediate-age open clusters can be used to learn about the stellar evolution of intermediate-mass stars and the dynamical evolution of clusters together with their interstellar extinction
- the interstellar extinction is a sum of absorption and scattering of the light within the interstellar medium, being inversely proportional to the light wavelength
- consequently, a general increase in absorption toward shorter wavelengths is observed, resulting in the effect of reddening
- in this repository, i made available the source code for data reduction and analysis in IDL, and my report and results, as well
- here is the final report for this work