Object Notes:

• Constellation: Puppis
• Location: RA: 07h 44m 35.9s Dec: -23d 52' 00" Epoch 2000
• Size: 22.0 arc-minutes
• Magnitude: 6.2
• Type: Open Cluster
• AKA: ngc 2447

Instrument:

Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope

Focal Ratio:

f7.2 (prime focus)

Film:

Fuji Provia 400 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)

Exposure:

30 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:

1/23/04