M35 ? Or M35 and NGC 2158, or neither.

[Tim]

Wonder if anybody can shed some photons on this.

I was out one dark night, and stellarium showed M35 as a cluster. Without an EP in, I just slewed the scope around and took a trial exposure, which showed the cluster on the left of the pic.

But the longer exposures brought out the smaller cluster on the right.

Anybody got a clue what they might be?

All I know for sure is that they were a little below and to the left of Mars on 07/01/08, at 21:47

This is a stacked pic, but if I'm honest the single frames seem to look better?

Cheers

TJ

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[ottUp]

TJ,

Wow, nice catch!

M35 is the large one. The small cluster is NGC2158. Pretty isn't it?

Excellent shot.

- Richard

[dogfish]

Very nice image. Of interest to me as I'd recently bought O'Meara's NGC book and had been setting some target challenges for my Scottish Astronomer buddies, with NGC 2158 being one of them.

http://scottishastronomers.com/forum/index.php?topic=63.0

I'll direct them here so they can see what it looks like.

Cheers, Martin

[G1ZmO]

Nice image TJ

Had a look at this a couple of weeks ago. Nice wee cluster

Paul

[Sam]

Nice catch TJ!