It is a nice cluster at 135X, with about 50 members. The UHC filter will just barely show a very faint streamer of nebulosity on the south side. Rocking the scope helps to make the nebula more noticeable. From the Digital Sky Survey. Overall brightness is mag.
Individual stars range from mags.
Map Printable Map More info. 67k JPEG 4k GIF NGC2301 is a mag. 6 open cluster, consisting of about 80 mag. 8 stars and fainter. Nebula filters help.