56 Clusters and Nebulce. 



Aurigce, a solitary 4 niag. star, in a conspicuous position, just 

 across the galaxy. Bather more than half way from ft Tauri 

 to 6 Aurigce, and a little below the hue joining them, we must 

 sweep about for — 



9. 37 M. (Aurigce). A cluster which will appear as a 

 nebula in the finder, and in a low power eye-piece will open 

 out into a beautiful irregularly circular cloud of minute stars 

 of various magnitudes, melting away on every side into the 

 surrounding galaxy. Long gazing seems to bring out more 

 perfectly the exceeding beauty of this glorious work of the 

 Creator. It also bears higher powers well, with which it oc- 

 cupies the field. Smyth truly describes it as a magnificent object, 

 the whole field being strewed with sparkling gold dust, and the 

 group resolved into about 500 stars, from 10 to 14 mag., 

 besides the outliers. He does not, however, mention a brighter 

 star pointed out by Knott in a conspicuous position near the 

 centre of the cluster. It is probably, as the latter says, an 

 illustration of the fact, that what strikes one person does not 

 strike another. 



As much above as we have been looking below the line 

 joining ft Tauri and # Aurigce,. and not far from our last object, 

 a little sweeping will bring a luminous cloud into the field of 

 the finder, which is — 



10. 86* M. (Aurigce). A large, bright, scattered cluster, 8' 

 to 14 mags., containing a double star, 368 H, 12", 308"7, 8 

 and 9, both white. 



If we place this object at the bottom of the field of the 

 finder, we shall (if it is of an ordinary extent) perceive 

 another less prominent nebulosity n p. This is 



11. 38 M. (Aurigce). Described by Smyth as a rich cluster, 

 of an oblique cruciform shape, with a pair of large stars in each 

 arm, and a conspicuous single one in the centre. It is best 

 seen with a low power, and melts away into the surrounding 

 galaxy. The neighbourhood is magnificent. A little s is a 

 small cluster, 39 Ijl VII, alias 354 H., who calls it pretty rich, 

 counting in it 50 or 60 stars, 9 to 12 mag. : such was the 

 working of his 18-inch speculum on this comparatively feeble 

 and remote aggregation. 



Descending the galaxy for a considerable distance, and 

 passing our acquaintance Propus, we shall find a much older 

 acquaintance, 8 Monoccroiis, No. 101 of our Double Star List 

 (Int. Obs., L 868, April, p. 217). About 2° E, of this, the 

 naked eye will readily detect a nebulosity, which the finder will 

 turn into a starry cloud. \t is — 



12. 1! IiI VII (Monocerotis). A brilliant group, containing 

 stars from ~< bo I )• niag — the latter, Smyth tells us, running in 

 * Wrongly numbered 5G in the maps of the S. D. U. K. 



