NGC 2202 ([KPR2004b] 92**) Open Cluster in Orion
Located at: RA 06 hours 16 minutes 51 seconds, Dec +05 degrees 59 minutes 48 seconds
Size: 7.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: cluster?*
North is up

West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 530 minutes (530 x 10 minute subs), 01/21/23/24/2011; seeing 2.9-4.5 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.17.3996.27523, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes:* |
This cluster is listed in "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes. However, it is listed with a question mark. Comments are: "Skiff: = HD 43511 (double), sparse field." Photographically, it does just look like nothing more than scattered field stars. The double HD 43511 is centered. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 2202 NGC 2202 06 16 51 +05 59.8 17.5": fairly distinctive asterism at 100x (20 Nagler), consisting of a bulbous mushroom-shaped ring of about a dozen fairly bright stars with a few others nearby. Within this irregular ring is a nice, mag 9.1/10.8 double (SAO 113671) at 10" separation. Adding to the effect is a straight trail of stars from the double forming a 10' "stem" heading to the NNE and containing a mag 8.7 star (SAO 113677). Listed as a nonexistent cluster in the RNGC. - by Steve Gottlieb ** CDS other name (KPR...) |