Study of an intermediate age open cluster IC 1434 using ground-based
  imaging and Gaia DR2 astrometry
  We present a detailed photometric and kinematical analysis of poorly studied
open cluster IC 1434 using CCD VRI, APASS, and Gaia DR2 database for the first
time. BY determining the membership probability of stars, we identified the 238
most probable members with a probability higher than 60% by using proper motion
and parallax data as taken from the Gaia DR2 catalog. The mean proper motion of
the cluster is obtained as emu_x= - 3.89 +/- 0.19 and emu_y= - 3.34 +/- 0.19
mas/yr in both the directions of right ascension and declination. The radial
distribution of member stars provides cluster extent as 7.6 arcmin. We have
estimated the interstellar reddening (E(B-V)) as 0.34 mag using the
transformation equations from literature. We obtained the values of cluster age
and distance are 631 +/- 73 Myr and 3.2 +/- 0.1 Kpc.
