--- carterscholz@No-Spam wrote:
> Asher Blum and I spent a productive three-plus hours observing at Del
> Valle on Tuesday night.
<snip >
> I also stumbled across a very pretty non-Herschel OC, 2362, making a
> halo around a 4th mag star in CMa.
Carter,
You stumbled across one of my leading candidates for "best OC". That
4th mag star is Tau CMa, and this cluster sometimes goes by the name
"Tau CMa Cluster". One of my very faves, which I revisit every winter.
Too bad it is down so low in the south.
Observe it when it culminates, and power it up. Magnificent!
Note that Tau itself is a triple!
Cheers, Bob J.
Received on Tue Apr 19 18:34:52 2005