A nice triangle of open clusters

[WaveSoarer]

It was a lovely clear night tonight (23/11/14) and while the scope and DSLR were busy imaging I had a search around with my 10 x 50s. The region bounded by Capella, Almath and theta-Aur is rich with open clusters and I spent quite a bit of time soaking in the view. There is a neat triangle of clusters defined by M36, NGC 1893, and the pair NGC 1907 and the starfish cluster. They all neatly fit in the field of view of my bins.The open clusters NGC 1857, NGC 1778 and M37 are all close by and this region is well worth a visit. 

[MAN or ASTROMAN]

'The Starfish Cluster' is a new one for me.What is it's NGC number?. That's a very interesting area of the sky,by the way.

[WaveSoarer]

The Starfish Cluster is actually M38. The Messier number doesn't quite have the same descriptive power.

[MAN or ASTROMAN]

Cheers for clearing that up.I've seen M38 loads of times,but never really thought of it as a Starfish before.I must have another look!