Astronomy · Observing Logs · Tag · m37

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With clouds moving through and objects like Comet Holmes and the Andromeda Galaxy lost against the bright city sky we turned out attention to one of Messier’s open clusters in Auriga, possibly M37. Here the 2” eyepiece with its wide field of view came into its own, setting the cluster in the context of surrounding stars and highlighting the compact nature of it. However, this is definitely the sparsest of the three clusters in Auriga.