2009-11-29, RGB
Image data
| Photographer: | Jürgen Stöger |
| Optics: | Takahashi FSQ106ED f/5 (main) Scopos ED66 (guide) |
| Mount: | Fornax 51 |
| Cameras: | QHY8 Pro (main) Starlight SXV-M7 (guide) |
| Exposure: | 80 minutes |
| Conditions: | bright night with high cirrus clouds |
| Moon: | 87 % illuminated fraction |
| Location: | Katzelsdorf |
| Date: | 29 November 2009 |
| Remarks: | – |
M 35 object information
Messier 35 and NGC 2158 are open star clusters in the constellation Gemini. M 35 was discovered by the Swiss astronomer Jean-Phillippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745 in his private observatory in Lausanne. The cluster was separately discovered by the English amateur astronomer John Bevis who might be the original discoverer of M 35.
Size: 30′Brightness: 5.1 mag
Distance: 2.200 light years
Trümpler classification: III 2 m
NGC 2158 object information
Size: 5′Brightness: 8.6 mag
Distance: 13.000 light years
Trümpler classification: II 3 r