Location: SCO
Date: 2018-09-08/09
Time: 10:10 PM ADT
Instrument: 10x42 IS Binoculars
Transparency: not recorded
Seeing: not recorded
Temperature ~9º C

Very windy and cool enough to warrant winter coat, hat and gloves.

I spent part of this evening searching for the stars of Cancer, a constellation I hadn't found before/ While trying to locate the stars visually, I noticed a faint fuzzy in the area. With the binoculars, I found this beauty that completely filled my FOV. No evidence of any true centre, other than some of the stars being slightly closer together. 

Constellation: Cancer
Type: Open Cluster
Magnitude: 3.1

Distance: 0.577 kly
Size: 95'

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