Type | Open Cluster |
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Magnitude | |
Size | 23' |
Right Ascension | 7h 30' (2000) |
Declination | 11° 53' N |
Constellation | Canis Minor |
Description | Questionable cluster |
Classification | IV1P |
Andrew Cooper
Apr 17, 2010 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 14%
A large 25' cluster, bright, irregular, sparse, a few dozen stars in an east-west stream, a bright 9th magnitude star on the north edge
1 Canis Minoris | 6 Canis Minoris | Medusa Nebula |
NGC 2395 | NGC 2416 |
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