Object Notes:

• Constellation: Perseus
• Location: RA: 02h 42m 0.0s Dec: +42d 47' 00" Epoch 2000
• Size: 35.0 arc-minutes
• Magnitude: 5.2
• Type: Open Cluster
• AKA: ngc1039

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:

12 x 1 minute Luminance unbinned,
6 x 1 minute each R/G/B, all unbinned

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:

9/06/05

Post Processing:

CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS