Messier 35

M35 (NGC 2168) is an open cluster in the constellation Gemini. At magnitude 5.3 it is visible to the naked eye in dark skies at the feet of Gemini (see chart below). In the lower right, which is southwest in this image, you can see NGC 2158 which is 10 times older and five times more remote than M35 and at magnitude 8.6 is not visible to the naked eye even in Torrey.

Mark Bailey

The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (thus one shot color (OSC)) on a TEC 140 telescope from the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3). 12 two-minute sub frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = 24 minute photo. Unguided, no calibration frames.

Astrometry.net. M35 is at the feet of Gemini.

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