Berkeley 4 (Lund 26) and King 16 (Lund 29) Open Clusters in Cassiopeia
Center of field at approximately: RA 00 hours 44 minutes 42 seconds, Dec +64 degrees 17 minutes 14 seconds
Size: 5.0' and 3.0'; Magnitude: 10.6 and 10.3; Class: I 2 p and I 2 m
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 10/27/2008; seeing 2.3-2.9 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, lists in the Comments (in part) for both these objects: ... "DSFG. Probably not a cluster." ... However, the CDS lists both as Open (galactic) Clusters. Photographically, they do appear as clusters |