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, 230 minutes (23 x 10 minute subs), 12/17/2006

Processing:

 CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This image replaces the unfiltered 60 minute Track & Accumulate image from December 2005.

According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, the size of this open cluster is 10 arc minutes.

From the NGC / IC Project:

Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1960

NGC 1960 = M36 = Cr 71
05 36 18 +34 08.5
V = 6.0;  Size 12

8": very bright, large, loose, includes two curving star lanes.  Double star 
?737 = 8.5/9.0 at 11" is near the center.

- by Steve Gottlieb