NGC2362:  This beautiful small (8 arcminutes) dense open cluster with a bright star embedded is one of my favorites,  very easy to find in any instrument. Two 20 minutes exposures with Fuji 100HQ film, image was cropped to increase scale, equivalent to using an instrument of 3000 mm focal length. This image has not been resized and is the native 2700 dpi resolution of my scanner.  This is a good subject for a long focal lenght instrument such as an SCT.

 

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