DoDz 6 (Lund 404) Open Cluster in Hercules
Located at: RA 16 hours 45 minutes 24 seconds, Dec +38 degrees 20 minutes 44 seconds
Size: 17' (3.5'); Magnitude: --; Class: IV 2 p (?)
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs) 06/13/14/17/2010; seeing 2.6-3.9 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.6.3800.24688, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
Comments from "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes. "Center at third brt. star. Brt star is HD 151366 = SAO 65529." "Star Clusters" gives the size of this cluster as 3.5 arc minutes. Flaring coming from NW (upper right) is from Eta Hercules (44 Her), a 3.5 (visual) magnitude star that is out of the field 45.5 minutes from DoDz 6 |