Messier 35 & NGC 2158 From The Balcony OSC (Peter Graf)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Gemini (Gem) · Contains: M 35 · NGC 2158 · NGC 2168

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Messier 35 & NGC 2158 From The Balcony OSC

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Messier 35 & NGC 2158 From The Balcony OSC

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

First clear night after several months, with galaxy season already starting. I was thinking about imaging something like the Christmas Tree, Rosette Nebula, but - with the unstable weather at the moment - star clusters are also really cool. :-)
Maybe more integration time could show more dust. Something for the future, as always. For the moment I am just happy that there was an opportunity for imaging again.
The field of view with the square sensor makes it a good catch with NGC 2158.

From Wikipedia:
Messier 35 or M35, also known as NGC 2168 or the Shoe-Buckle Cluster, is a relatively close open cluster of stars in the west of Gemini, at about the declination of the sun when the latter is at June solstice. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux around 1745 and independently discovered by John Bevis before 1750. It is scattered over part of the sky almost the size of the full moon and is 2,970 light-years (912 parsecs) away. The compact open cluster NGC 2158 lies directly southwest of it.

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