Object Notes:

• Constellation: Cassiopeia
• Location: RA: 01h 33m 11.9s Dec: +60d 42' 00" Epoch 2000
• Size: 6.0 arc-minutes
• Magnitude: 7.4
• Type: Open Cluster
• AKA: ngc582

Instrument:

Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f7.2 (prime focus)

Camera:

SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.)

Exposure:

28 x 1 minute Luminance unbinned
9 x 1 minute each R/G/B, all binned 3x3

Guiding:

Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.

Date:

10/07/04

Post Processing:

CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS