NGC 2451

Object information
Designation: NGC 2451
Popular name: none
Type of object: Open cluster (II2p)
Right ascension: 07h 45m 15.0s
Declination: -37° 58′ 03″
Constellation: Puppis
Magnitude: 3.5
Size: 50.0′
Altitude of the object: 15°
Visuality of the object: – (from 1-5, 5 being worst and 1 best)

Observation information
Observing session id:
Date: 8./9.4.2016
Time: 23.05
Location: El Retamar (2100m), Teide N.P., Tenerife, Spain
Instrument: L80/400mm (3” Refractor)
Magnification: 13x
Field of view: 250′
Filter: –

Observation conditions
NELM: 6,6
SQM: 21,15
Seeing: 2 (from 1-5, 5 being worst and 1 best)
Transparency: –
Darkness of the background sky: 1 (from 1-5, 5 being worst and 1 best)
Weather: Clear sky, fresh, gusty breeze, +8C

Description: A pretty large and bright starred cluster, not very concentrated but it is still well detached. In the middle of this cluster, there is a bright-starred triangle, the star in the upper right corner if this triangle is intensively red! NGC 2477 was visible as a nebulous patch 1,5 degrees east from the cluster.