Object: Nonex-open cluster NGC 1708             Constell: CAM

RA: 05h 02.8m           Decl: +52° 53'          Epoch: 2000
Mag:                    Size: 22'x17' (own)     Type: III 2 m
                                                      (own)
Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Hartola, Finland
Date/Time: 24./25.8.1996, 02.31

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 40x               Filter:
Field: 83'              NE Lim.mag: 6.0m
Background sky: 3       Seeing: 2-3
Weather: +8 °C, no Moon.           

Brightness: 3           Alt: 60°
Description: Easy and quite nice. Size 22'x17'. About 20 stars
mag. 10,5.... in several subgroups. Brightest stars in several
chains running W-E. Sharp edges. Estimated coordinates: RA 05h
03.4m, Decl: +52° 49' (J2000)

J. Herschel (1833): "vLoose; p Rich; fills field; the largest *
10m; mixed magnitudes."