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Out in the garden at 2:30 for a couple of hours - more transparent than it's been for a while.

After a quick look at M42 (always a pleasure), I headed over to another favourite, M35 - yes, NGC 2158 was visible (15x70).

Down to the inverted Xmas tree (NGC 2264). It was then I "discovered" NGC 2251 - the glow looked a bit like an edge-on galaxy in 10x50, but it resolved as a cluster in 15x70.

Managed a "first time for me from England" (never bothered to try 'cause I assumed I wouldn't be able to): the nebulosity in the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2244) in binocs. It took AV in 15x70, which is how I first noticed it "in passing", but was actually easier in 10x50 (DV), probably because of its size.

M50 is a cracker: the unresolved stars give it a lovely glow.

Back to Orion's head with the 15x70, which brings out the colours of the stars in the cluster (although I think the yellow one isn't actually a cluster member).

Last stop in the region was the tiny NGC 2169, the 37 cluster. The 7 was obvious in the 15x70, but the 3 asterism tends to get swamped by the 7th mag blue star. What a pity it's the 38th object in Per Collinder's catalogue of open galactic clusters!

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