Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  2 Gem  ·  5 Gem  ·  IC 2156  ·  IC 2157  ·  M 35  ·  NGC 2158  ·  NGC 2168  ·  The star 5Gem
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M35 and NGC 2158, Sven Hoffmann
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M35 and NGC 2158

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M35 and NGC 2158

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What a beautiful pair to compose together Even though it's just a pair of clusters and basically only stars I really like this object. There's something about it that mesmerizes me. It almost looks 3d, as if the NGC 2158 is further away in space.

I was pleasantly supprised how little integration time was needed to get a beautiful picture out of it.

The seeing was absolutely insane when I took this which can easily be seen in full resolution, because some stars are barely more than a pixel which is probably the closest I've ever got to actually utilizing the diffraction limit of the Esprit. Dec guiding with good PA was 0.31" - lowest I've ever seen.

(Dec guiding is a good indicator for seeing because I rarely get any corrections and I can see when it get's all spiky that the seeing is bad)

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M35 and NGC 2158, Sven Hoffmann

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