NGC 2169

An otherwise ordinary open cluster in Orion, I viewed this deep space object on December 17th, 2008 at 8:00pm cst. The worthy note was that the temperature was sitting at about 5 degrees. With snow on the ground and Christmas lights causing more than normal light pollution, this was my best observational effort; Too cold, and too bright on this night. NGC 2169 is a small distinct open cluster best viewed through a 10mm lense.