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NGC2421 (Open Cluster, in Puppis, Est. RaDec 07h36m,-20d37')
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: poor Seeing: good
Time: Mon Jan 5 07:28:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 293
On Sunday night/Monday morning the seeing was satisfactory but because of the high relative humidity, the transparency was far from excellent. I located another Herschel 400 open cluster in Puppis and viewed a number of old favorites including a number of spring DSOs. NGC 2421 is a 9th magnitude group of some 50 stars that is about 8'in size and is somewhat concentrated. The other objects that I observed were M1, M42, M43, NGC 1973-7, M78, M79, the carbon star R Leporis, M82, M81, M51 and NGC 5195, M106, M66, NGC 2362, M93, M37, M45, M35, NGC 2158, NGC 2567, M48, NGC 3242(the Ghost of Jupiter), and M3. Perhaps due to the poor transparency I was unsuccessful in locating either Comet 55/P Temple-Tuttle or Comet 78/P Gehrels.
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