Berkeley  18 (King 22, Lund 162) Open Cluster in Auriga

Located at: RA 05 hours 22 minutes 12 seconds, Dec +45 degrees 27 minutes 30 seconds

Size: 20'; Magnitude: --; Class: II 1 r

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 190 minutes (19 x 10 minute subs), 01/5/2007

Processing:

CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This image was a little tough to process. Capella (Alpha Aurigae), at magnitude 0.08, is just 1.1 degrees to the Northwest (upper right) of the center of this cluster