NGC654 - Rich open cluster in Cassiopiea
with 10" f/3.9 Astrograph
Uploaded 12/30/17

This naked eye brightness cluster contains over 60 stars in an area only 5 arc minutes in size. Two brilliant colored gems stud this pile of fainter stars, with a good spread in brightness from moderate to very dim.
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Instrument: 10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph Newtonian with Baader MPCC Mount: Astrophysics 1200 QMD CCD Camera: SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling Guider: Meade DSI Pro w/80mm piggyback refractor Exposure: 15m RGB AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio: 1: 1.05: 1.2 Location: Payson, Arizona, Elevation: 5150 ft. Sky: Seeing FWHM = 4 arcsec , Transparency 9/10 Outside Temperature: 35 F CCD Temperature: -20 C Image Processing Tools: Maxim DL6: Calibration, deblooming (Starizona Debloomer), aligning, stacking PixInsight: Curves, Deconvolution Photoshop CS2: Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup HOME GALAXIES EMISSION NEBS REFLECTION NEBS COMETS GLOBULARS OPEN CLUST PLANETARIES LINKS