| Position: | RA 04h 28m 50s Dec +83d 56m 38s |
| Size: | 5' |
| Brightest star: | PPM 741=V408 Cep, 5.5 mag |
As a child one learns, how to draw a tiny hill with a gallows on it.
In schooldays it even is a game.
Now have a look at this asterism near Polaris.
It lookes best with a Field of View of about 45 arcminutes.
for Dobson-Observers the best time to have a look at it is around early
evening in spring as the "hill" is north of the "gallows".
The brightest star is V408 Cep around 5.5mag.
Here are two finder-charts for the object (click to enlarge). Extend the connecting line from delta UMi to alpha UMi and watch out for a pair of stars of magnitude 5.5 in a distance of 5.5 degree to Polaris. They are one moon's diameter apart from eachother. Le 3 is attached to the northern star of the pair.
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All charts generated with Guide 8.
BACK(c) by Frank Leiter