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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.