Czernik 8 (Lund 82) and King 4 (Lund 87) Open Clusters in Perseus and Cassiopeia
Center of field at approximately: 02 hours 34 minutes 27 seconds, Dec +58 degrees 54 minutes 23 seconds
Size: 6.0' (2.0') and 3.0' (5.0'); Magnitude: 9.7 and 10.5; Class: II 2 p and III 1 p
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -10c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 11/15/2008; seeing 2.9-3.9 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.4, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
Czernik 8 is in the Southwest (lower right) in Perseus, around the 'bright' star, and King 4 is at he Northeast (upper left), in Cassiopeia. Both are recognizable as clusters. According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, the size of the open clusters are 2.0 arc minutes for Czernik 8, and 5.0 arc minutes for King 4 |