Object Notes:

• Constellation: Auriga
• Location: RA: 05h 36m 6.0s Dec: +34d 08' 00" Epoch 2000
• Size: 12.0 arc-minutes
• Magnitude: 6.0
• Type: Open Cluster
• AKA: ngc1960

Instrument:

Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f7.2 (prime focus)

Film:

Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)

Exposure:

20 minutes

Camera:

Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by PreciseParts.

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:

3/19/04

Post Processing:

Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's bgsmooth program.