NGC 2186 (Lund 209, Cr 85) Open Cluster in Orion
Located at: RA 06 hours 12 minutes 08 seconds; Dec +05 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds
Size: 4.0' (5.0'); Magnitude: 8.7; Class: II 2 m
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 150 minutes (15 x 10 minute subs), 03/1/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal
and Steven Hynes, the size of this open cluster is 5.0 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 2186 NGC 2186 = Cr 85 = OCL-498 = Lund 209 06 12 08 +05 27.5 V = 8.7; Size 4 17.5": at 140x about 30 stars in a 4' diameter including three mag 10 stars. Includes a prominent subgroup with a mag 10 star on the N side and a double star 11/12 at 10". A clump of mag 13/14 stars is just W of this subgroup. - by Steve Gottlieb |