FSR 983* Asterism in Orion
Located at: RA 05 hours 23 minutes 06 seconds, Dec +00 degrees 37 minutes 51 seconds
Size: ~5.0'; Magnitude: --; Class: Asterism
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: |
Lumicon Red filter, 450 minutes (45 x 10 minute subs), 01/17/18/2012; seeing 2.5-3.5 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.57.4401.17183, Photoshop CS 5.1 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes:* | Shot this field from information in Deep Sky Wonders column by Sue French (Sky & Telescope, March 2011, pg 64-66). Got this image in between periods of high clouds, as this is our rainy season ... This object is not listed in "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes |