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The cluster NGC 2232 is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
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The open star cluster NGC 2232 (mag 4.2) in Monoceros will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 28 December it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Cambridge , it is visible between 19:43 and 03:40. It will become accessible at around 19:43, when it rises to an altitude of 18° above your south-eastern horizon. It will reach its highest point in the sky at 23:41, 42° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible at around 03:40 when it sinks below 18° above your south-western horizon.

At a declination of 4°50'S, it is visible across much of the world; it can be seen at latitudes between 65°N and 74°S.

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At magnitude 4.2, NGC2232 is tricky to make out with the naked eye except from a dark site, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of NGC2232 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
NGC2232 06h28m00s 4°50'S Monoceros 4.2 9'54"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 28 Dec 2022

The sky on 28 December 2022
Sunrise
07:10
Sunset
16:18
Twilight ends
18:00
Twilight begins
05:29

5-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

46%

5 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:19 12:59 17:38
Venus 08:22 12:55 17:29
Moon 11:16 16:52 22:40
Mars 14:00 21:43 05:25
Jupiter 11:19 17:18 23:18
Saturn 09:48 14:53 19:58
All times shown in EST.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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