Deep Sky Object in Winter
NGC2353 (Open Cluster in Monoceros)


Date & Time: Dec 29 2018, from 22:56 to 23:18 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical: TAKAHASHI 16cm(6.3") epsilon (f=530mm, F3.3)
with IDAS LPS-D1 Light-pollution suppression filter
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI JP Equatorial & SBIG STV
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648)
Device Size...24×16mm, Sensitivity...ISO1600


NGC2353 / Open Cluster, type III 3 p
R.A.07h 14m 35.9s (2000.0)
Dec.-10° 18' 00" (2000.0)
Apparent Size20.0'
Real SizeN/A
# of Stars30
Magnitude7.1
DistanceN/A
At around the southern edge of the constellation of Monoceros, NGC2353 is an small open cluster positioned nearby the boundary on Canis Major. The cluster has a visual brightness of 7th magnitude and an apparent diameter of about 20 arc minutes. A famous reddish diffused nebula of "Seagull Nebula (IC2177)" is lying in only 2 degrees west of the tiny cluster. Actually the open cluster is bathed in the extraordinary dimmed gaseous matter that surrounds the Seagull Nebula. It might be needed small telescopes to appreciate the cluster, rather than binoculars.



NGC2301
Around NGC2354

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