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ASTRO: Four open clusters (NGC 663, 654, IC166, Berkeley 6)
I recently put the Explore Scientific 0.7 3" reducer on my ES 127 FCD100 APO and was pleased to see that they both work well together.
As the sky was not good enough for faint stuff I imaged a field that contains four open clusters. IC 166 (upper left) is my favourite with all it's faint yellow stars. Taken from Berlin with an ASI1600MC cool camera, 110x2 minutes.
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Nice group. The system works well.
I've done all but the Berkeley cluster. I'm slowly working on them but haven't yet hit it. Had it low on my priority. Seeing its wide range of very faint to bright stars I kicked that up a couple notches. Still time this year if the rain ever stops. We are getting a few mm each day so far this month. Only clear night this month was lost when all com ports vanished from the computer. I spent the night trying to recover them. Finally indesperation I rebooted the focuser. Suddenly all ports appeared, not just the one it was using. But then the seeing turned to worthless as a strong cold front came through dropping the temperature 2C every 5 minutes! I went from 25C to 10C in less than an hour. The ended the night but at least the com ports were back. I had to do all individually. I really do need to get something for a wider field. Doesn't seem to be happening as I still have hundreds on the narrow field to-do list. The color contrast of IC 166's red color to the others. It is much more distant though not a lot more reddened. And is many times older though still rather young at a bit over 400 million years of age. Still I find it redder than I'd have expected compared to the other three. I got the same color for the three I did as you so must be correct. NGC 654 has both a dark nebula to the northeast and a small reflection nebula on the southwest end. I doubt either are within reach from your location without many nights of subs. http://www.spacebanter.com/showthread.php?t=180859 Quote:
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Rick,
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The reflection nebula is hinted at in my image, but it is green instead of blue. Probably a remnant of the gradients I had to remove.
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