NGC 2301 (Lund 263, Cr 119) Open Cluster in Monoceros
Located at: RA 06 hours 51 minutes 46 seconds, Dec +00 degrees 27 minutes 36 seconds
Size: 12' (15'); Magnitude: 6.0; Class: I 3 r
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: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 03/17/18/2008; seeing 2.9-3.9 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.2, 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 15 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 2301 NGC 2301 = Cr 119 = Mel 54 = OCL-540 06 51 45 +00 27.6 V = 6.0; Size 12 17.5": ~60-70 stars in cluster. A bright colored double star (blue/yellow ) is near the center. Many of the stars are arranged in two strings oriented SW-NE which pass through the center. 13": striking, ~60 stars in cluster, dozens more near, very elongated string thru center. - by Steve Gottlieb |