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M35

Messier 35
Open Star Cluster
Right Ascension 6h 08m 54s Best Seen 01/01 - 05/15
Declination 24° 20' 00" Magnitude 5.3
Constellation Gemini

Actual		 Compared
to Sun
Distance 2,800 ly --
Diameter 24 ly --
Number of Stars ~300 1
Actual Brightness -- --
Age 110 million years 5 billion
Integrated Spectral Type -- G2 V
Density (gram/cubic cm) -- --

What To Look For Through The Telescope

  1. Recommended eyepiece: 40mm or 80mm.

  2. Through the telescope the cluster will appears as a group of individual stars; much like sugar or salt sprinkled on a table top.

M35 Information

  1. The average distance between stars in this cluster is about 1.5 light years.

  2. The luminosity of this cluster is 2,500 times the sun’s luminosity.

  3. This cluster was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745-6, and independently by John Bevis before 1750. When Charles Messier catalogued it, he acknowledged Bevis’s discovery.

  4. M35 can occasionally be seen with the unaided eye as a hazy spot at the feet of Gemini.

  5. M35 is an intermediate-age cluster: it still has many hot, blueish stars, but it also has several cooler, yellow stars.

  6. Through the telescope, M35 has a neighbor, NGC 2158. NGC 2158 has many more stars, is much more compact, is over 10 times older than M35, and is four times farther away than M35. Because it’s older, it consists of more yellow stars.
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References
Item Updated Notes
Coordinates 2002-12-10 SIMBAD and http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Magnitude 2002-12-10 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Distance 2002-12-10 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Actual Brightness --
Number of Stars 2002-12-10 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Diameter 2002-12-10 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Age 2002-12-10 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Integrated Spectral Type --
Other Information 2002-12-10 Cannot find any support for items 1 and 2.
Items 3-6 from http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html and http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m035_more.html