Ngc3158 cluster and an Intergalactic Tadpole featured in March Sky And Telescope

The nice little group around Ngc3158 is featured in Ken Hewitt-White's
piece in the March S&T.
This is a favorite group although to see some of the dimmer guys
requires great eyes or 14+ inch or more scope I suspect.

There is a real nice color pic with labels in there as well.

The Sue French piece contains an assortment of objects in the area of
Lynx with a few common name ones of Ngc2537 ( Bear Claw Galaxy) and
Ngc2419 globular (Intergalactic Wanderer or sometimes called
Intergalactic Tramp) and good old Jones-Emberson 1 dim but unique
planitary nebula for which she has included an extremely nice picture.

I first saw Ngc2419 in an 8" short Newt that got a lot of millage and
could not help but notice the 2 bright field stars trailing off to the
west from this globular. Well if you have a 12" or better you will
then see that this wanderer has a trail of gradually dimming stars
wandering off 20' in a WNW direction and made up of 6 stars stars down
to mag 13.5. For this reason I would say it is an Intergalactic
Tadpole although the stars are of course within our main milky way.

Marko

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