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NGC 2269 in Monoceros
Date of Obs ..... February 3, 2021 |
This open cluster is very faint and easy to overlook. Locating it via star-hopping is not easy either! I started in the area of the Rosette Nebula and worked my way east along a corridor of moderately bright stars, but then had to go a fairly long distance before arriving at the area of NGC 2269. I found it to be very faint and easy to overlook. At 76x it was very hard to even notice, but with 123x, it was noticeably easier. I saw a pair of stars in the middle and three other outlying stars, but the rest was just an unresolved haze. |