The "Beehive" or "Praesepe" - appears as a hazy patch of light. An open
cluster at mag. 3.1, 95 arc minutes across. Contains 200 stars of mag.6.3 to 14, easily resolved in
7 x 50 binoculars. First observed telescopically by Galileo.Use lowest power or finderscope. (Cnc)
A bright open cluster of 200 stars, mag. 6.7, only 30 arc minutes
across. Located five times as distant as M44. One of the oldest clusters, at 3.2 billion years.
Easy in binoculars or finderscope. (Cnc)
NGC 2683!
08hr 52.7m
+33° 25'
The brightest deep-sky object in Lynx. An Sb spiral, hard to
miss at mag. 9.7. Measures 9.3 x 2.5 arc minutes, with high surface brightness. Look for dark
lanes with large scopes at high power. (110NGC) (Lyn)
A 10th magnitude Sa spiral galaxy, 4.5 x 3.5 arc minutes.
Located near the Cancer/Hydra border. (Cnc)
NGC 2419
07hr 38m
+38° 53'
One of the most remote globular clusters known. Small and faint, only
4.1 arc minutes in size, glowing at magnitude 10.4 - 90 Kiloparsecs away.(Lyn)
NGC 2541
08hr 15m
+49° 04'
A fairly bright spiral galaxy at magnitude 11.8 - 6.6 x 3.5 arc
minutes in size. (Lyn)
NGC 2500
08hr 02m
+50° 44'
A barred spiral, only 3 x 2.7 arc minutes in size. Mag.11.6.(Lyn)
NGC 2537
08hr 13m
+46° 00'
The "Bear-Paw Galaxy" - fairly bright and
compact. Mag. 11.7, 1.7 x 1.5 arc minutes. In large scopes appears circular with a brighter,
incomplete ring around the outside. (Lyn)
IC 2233
08hr 14m
+45° 44'
Located in the same low power field as NGC 2537, one of the
thinnest galaxies known. 4.7 arc minutes long, but only 0.6 wide. Magnitude 13. (Lyn)
A small, faint irregular galaxy 6° north of
M44. Only 2 x 0.4 arcminutes in size, glowing at mag 13.8. 70 Megaparsecs away, resembling
the "Ring Tail Galaxy" in Corvus - NGC 4038/9. (Cnc)
(The Crab) and
