Object Notes:

• Constellation: Vulpecula
• Location: RA: 19h 43m 6.0s Dec: +23d 18' 00" Epoch 2000
• Size: 12.0 arc-minutes
• Magnitude: 7.1
• Type: Open Cluster with Diffuse Nebula
• AKA: OCL 124

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:

10 x 5 minutes Luminance unbinned
3 x 10 minutes 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:

10/12/04

Post Processing:

CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS