M35 OPEN STAR CLUSTER Right Ascension: 6h 08m 54s Best Seen: 01/01 - 05/15 Declination: 24º 20' 00" Magnitude 5.3 Computer File: m35 Target RA 06h08'54" Target Dec 24d20'00 MOVE Constellation Gemini
Actual Compared to Earth Distance 2,800 ly -- Actual Brightness -- -- Number of Stars ~300 1 Diameter 24 ly -- Age 110 million years 5 billion Integrated Spectral Type -- -- WHAT TO LOOK FOR THROUGH THE TELESCOPE: 1. Recommended eyepiece: 40mm or 80 mm.
- 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.
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The luminosity of this cluster is 2,500 times the sun’s luminosity.
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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.
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M35 can occasionally be seen with the unaided eye as a hazy spot at the feet of Gemini.
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M35 is an intermediate-age cluster: it still has many hot, blueish stars, but it also has several cooler, yellow stars.
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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.
FACT CHECKER
Item Updated Notes
Coordinates 12-10-2002 SIMBAD and http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Magnitude 12-10-2002 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Distance 12-10-2002 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Actual Brightness --
Number of Stars 12-10-2002 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Diameter 12-10-2002 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Age 12-10-2002 http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m035.html
Integrated Spectral Type --
Other Information 12-10-2002 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