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 -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.