Observer:
William L. Schart Your skills: Advanced (many years) Date/time of
observation: 11/22/01 7:06 pm CST Location of site: Killeen, TX (Lat 31 07,
Elev 600 ft) Site classification: Suburban Sky darkness: 3.5 <Limiting
magnitude> Seeing: 8 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Moon presence:
Minor - crescent or far from object Instrument: Celestar 8" SCT, fork
mount Magnification: 78x Filter(s): none Object(s): NGC
436 Category: Open cluster. Planetary nebula. Emission nebula. Reflection
nebula. Dark nebula. Supernova remnant. Asterism. Multiple star. Variable star.
Cluster of galaxies. Group of galaxies. Extragalactic HII. Extragalactic O-B.
Extragalactic glob. Other. Class: Constellation: Cas Data:
mag size Position: RA 01:15 DEC
+58:49 Description: A close neighbor to NGC 457. Appears as a small,
X-shaped group of stars. I count about 12 stars with some other very faint
stars, these mostly seen with averted vision. -- Optional related URLs:
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