M 34 (NGC 1039, Lund 91) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 02 hours 42 minutes 08 seconds, Dec +42 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 35' (25'); Magnitude: 5.2; Class: II 3 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, 130 minutes (13 x 10 minute subs), 11/9/2006 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal
and Steven Hynes, the size of this open cluster is 25 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1039 NGC 1039 = M34 = Cr 31 02 42.0 +42 47 V = 5.2; Size 35 13.1": about 100 stars in a 30' diameter. Very bright, very large, many double stars, three main curved lanes. Includes a bright double star h1123 = 8.0/8.0 at 20". Naked-eye object in fairly dark sky. - by Steve Gottlieb |