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NGC 2396 in Puppis
Date of Obs ..... January 17, 2021 |
NGC 2396 is an open cluster right at the tri-border region between
Canis Major and Puppis, just south of Monoceros. It is barely
across the border from Canis Major, in Puppis probably by only a few
arc-minutes. I found this object to be surprisingly difficult
to locate via star-hopping, mainly because the star field in this
area of the Milky Way is peppered with evenly bright stars with no
real discernible pattern. My route was to start at NGC 2374 (which I had to relocate because I was
down at NGC 2367), then go northeastward past
two rows of star aligned perpendicularly to the route I was taking,
and then arriving at another group of stars within which the cluster
was situated. Once I arrived there, I thought it was easy to see, fully resolved, with the brighter stars of the cluster making a semi- circle. |