  The proper motions of 15 nearby (d < 1 kpc) open clusters were recalculated
using data from the UCAC4 catalog. Only evolved or main sequence stars inside a
certain radius from the center of the cluster were used. The results differ
significantly from the ones presented by Dias et al. (2014). This could be
explained by the different approach to taking the field star contamination into
account. The present work aims to emphasize the importance of applying
photometric criteria for the calculation of open cluster proper motions.
