[AZ-Observing] Re: Sentinel Saturday Night

Rick Tejera wrote:
>The nightly enigma was NGC 1605. This is listed as
>an open cluster of 5' diameter at mag 10.7. It is within
>2 degrees of NGC 1582. I kept looking for a small
>knot of stars among the rich starfield but all I seemed
>to find were two groupings of 4 stars about 1' apart. 
I haven't observed this cluster. The physical data in Archinal & Hynes 
matches that of MegaStar5: 10.7mag.; 5' diam.; 40 stars; brightest is 12.5 mag. 
A 
DSS image shows a 5' diameter area of slightly higher stellar density with a 
9.2 
magnitude star ~8' due north and 7.4 magnitude HD 28943 ~9' east-southeast. 
It reminded me of M13's arrangement, with HD 150998 to the east and HD 150679 
to the south-southwest.

It's been nice reading the reports from Sentinel. We've all been due some 
quality observing time.

Regards,

Bill


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