Object: Open cluster IC 2602                    Constell: CAR

RA: 10h 43.2m           Decl: -64° 23'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 1.6m               Size: 49'               Type: I 3 r

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: LaSilla, Chile
Date/Time: 23./24.11.1993, 02.25

Telescope: B 9x25
Magn: 9x                Filter:
Field: 4.5°             NE Lim.mag: 6.0m
Background sky: 1-2     Seeing: 0-1
Weather: 3/4-Moon setting NW. Still marvelous compared with
Finnish weather.

Brightness: 1           Alt:    
Description: Easily visible with NE; A beautiful cluster even
with small binoculars, embedded in the bright sourthern Milky
Way. About 15 stars surrounding a vB central star. Irregular. A
clump of four bright stars on the E edge. Size about 0.8°=50'.