NGC 1193 (Lund 99, Cr 35) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 03 hours 05 minutes 56 seconds, Dec +44 degrees 23 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 2.0' (3.0'); Magnitude: 12.6; Class: I 2 m
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, 280 minutes (28 x 10 minute subs), 12/5/2008; seeing 2.3-3.0 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: |
According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, the size of this open cluster is 3.0 arc minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1193 NGC 1193 = Cr 35 = OCL-390 = Lund 99 03 05 56 +44 23.0 Size 2 17.5": this faint open cluster consists of an elongated glow with five faint stars mag 14-15 superimposed and a mag 11 star at the W edge. Located 4' ESE of a wide pair of bright stars (7.7/9.5 at 1.1'). This is a fairly old open cluster with age ~ 4.2 billion years. - by Steve Gottlieb |