BEAUTY: 
BRAGGING RIGHTS: A beautiful sight
HOW EASY IS IT TO SEE? Best with small telescope
BEST TIME TO SEE IT: Winter (in Gemini)
TYPE: Open Cluster DISCOVERED: 1745, Philippe Loys de Chéseaux
At the foot of the twin. Messier 35 is easy to find. Find Gemini in late winter and look at the foot of the right-most twin (from our perspective). A few degrees away you’ll see a faint concentration of stars, just a fuzzy patch of light. Though it is (barely) visible to the naked eye, optical aid is required to best appreciate this cluster of faint stars. Binoculars show a few dozen outlying stars buzzing around a faint unresolved core. A small telescope at 50× shows more stars, though patience and averted vision are required to see them all. For an added challenge, try spotting NGC 2158, which is a tiny open cluster about a half degree to the south. In a small telescope it will appear as a small fuzzy orb. Larger scopes can resolve it into faint stars.
