Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  The star Celaeno (16 Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17 Tau)
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A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped), Stefan Junger
A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped)
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A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped)

Revision title: Magnitude corrected

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A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped), Stefan Junger
A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped)
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A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped)

Revision title: Magnitude corrected

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UGC 2838 is only barely visible ...

... but that's not bad for a 60mm telescope under Bortle7 skies.

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UGC 2838 is a spiral galaxy between 257 Mio. and 365 Mio. LY distant, has a magnitude of 16.0 and a maximum dimension in longitude of 0.843 arcmin (NIR).

Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu

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A faint whiff of UGC 2838 (M 45 - Pleiades) (cropped), Stefan Junger