CCD BV and 2MASS photometric study of the open cluster NGC 1513

We present CCD BV and JHK\(_{s}\) 2MASS photometric data for the open cluster NGC 1513. We observed 609 stars in the direction of the cluster up to a limiting magnitude of \(V\sim19\) mag. The star count method shows that the centre of the cluster lies at \(\alpha_{2000}=04^{h}09^{m}36^{s}\), \(\delta_{2000}=49^{\circ}28^{'}43^{''}\) and its angular size is \(r=10\) arcmin. The optical and near-infrared two-colour diagrams reveal the colour excesses in the direction of the cluster as \(E(B-V)=0.68\pm0.06\), \(E(J-H)=0.21\pm0.02\) and \(E(J-K_{s})=0.33\pm0.04\) mag. These results are consistent with normal interstellar extinction values. Optical and near-infrared Zero Age Main-Sequences (ZAMS) provided an average distance modulus of \((m-M)_{0}=10.80\pm0.13\) mag, which can be translated into a distance of \(1440\pm80\) pc. Finally, using Padova isochrones we determined the metallicity and age of the cluster as \(Z=0.015\pm 0.004\) (\([M/H]=-0.10 \pm 0.10\) dex) and \(\log (t/yr) = 8.40\pm0.04\), respectively.