Object of the Week January 10th, 2016 – Palomar 2

[Steve Gottlieb]

My last 18" observation of Pal 2 is quite similar to your 16" notes. What have others seen?

Pal 2 was immediately picked up at 285x as a faint, fairly small, roundish glow, ~1.5' diameter. Easily visible with averted vision and could be held continuously without difficulty. Very weakly concentrated with a very small brighter core or knot that seemed offset from the geometric center. SQM-L 21.55

[lamperti]

Saw it with a 20" at 272x. It makes an equilateral triangle with 2 stars, with Pal-2 at the apex. Not quite resolvable. Hazy patch.

I wrote an article on all Palomar GCs in The Deep Sky Observer 154:22-25, 2011

[Jim Chandler]

My note from December 2004 using a 25" f/5 at 287x:

As the seeing comes & goes, the view changes from nebulous to granular. A compact, almost circular cluster.