NGC 2567 -- Open Cluster in Puppis
The constellation of the “Stern of the Ship Argo” (Puppis) is for the most part too far south from
my location in Central Maryland to view – but not all of it. There is a wide northern extension of
the constellation that rides the milky way north just to the east of Canis Major culminating in the
well-known Open Clusters of M46 and M47 (also do not forget the Open Cluster M93 south of
them). In addition, there are many additional Puppis Open Clusters along this stretch of the
Milky Way worth visiting. Two local Parks provided me far better southern views of the sky than
from my backyard, which I sketched eight of the best of the northern non-Messier Puppis Open
Clusters on the evenings of March 2nd and March 3rd (NGC 2421, 2479, 2482, 2489, 2509,
2527, 2567 and 2571).
NGC 2567 was a tight elongation of dim stars arranged in a center line running north and south
with two arcs of stars extending the cluster in the northeast to southwest direction. I found it a
quite pleasing cluster that was best viewed in the 110mm refractor at 168x. I used the lower
magnification of 58x for the overall drawing of the surrounding star field but added the cluster
details using the higher power.
my location in Central Maryland to view – but not all of it. There is a wide northern extension of
the constellation that rides the milky way north just to the east of Canis Major culminating in the
well-known Open Clusters of M46 and M47 (also do not forget the Open Cluster M93 south of
them). In addition, there are many additional Puppis Open Clusters along this stretch of the
Milky Way worth visiting. Two local Parks provided me far better southern views of the sky than
from my backyard, which I sketched eight of the best of the northern non-Messier Puppis Open
Clusters on the evenings of March 2nd and March 3rd (NGC 2421, 2479, 2482, 2489, 2509,
2527, 2567 and 2571).
NGC 2567 was a tight elongation of dim stars arranged in a center line running north and south
with two arcs of stars extending the cluster in the northeast to southwest direction. I found it a
quite pleasing cluster that was best viewed in the 110mm refractor at 168x. I used the lower
magnification of 58x for the overall drawing of the surrounding star field but added the cluster
details using the higher power.