Object: Open cluster MESSIER 52 Constell: CAS RA: 23h 24.2m Decl: +61° 35' Epoch: 2000 Mag: 6.9m Size: 13' Type: I 2 r Observer: Jere Kahanpää Obs. place: Jyväskylä, Finland Date/Time: 13./14.1.1992, 21.40 Telescope: N 205/1000 Magn: 133x Filter: Field: 22' NE Lim.mag: 5.0m => clouds Background sky: 4 Seeing: 3 Weather: -22 °C, clouds. Brightness: 3 Alt: Description: A compact cluster including a S-shaped chain of stars. Drawing not completed due to high-alt clouds and local ice crystal clouds (nice halo phenomena, though...)