Title NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

Description This bright cluster itself is easily visible with the naked eye as a hazy patch off the side of the Milky way in a much less Star dense area, but is resolvable into stars using binoculars. It contains two 5th magnitude red giant stars and three main visual double stars: HJ 4027, HJ 4031 and I 29. A small telescope would be required to split the double stars, which are all pairs of 8-9 magnitude and 1-10 arcseconds separation. To me it looks like a man running when viewed through the 20" F5 "Zamar" and a 31mm Nagler EP. This revision due to the back ground being to dark on the original. A favourite stop in a Southern Milky way tour. Awe and Wonder folks !

Published Aug 18, 2024, 11:53:55 PM