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NGC2282 (Bright Nebula in Monoceros)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Feb 5 04:35:00 1997 UT Obs. no.: 48
Big, faint glow, glimpsed repeatedly in 7x50s with averted vision. At the time I believed I might be seeing very faint stars, not quite resolvable, but subsequent Sky Atlas checking reveals that I was seeing a nebula. Swept up during Milky Way "bug hunt."
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