NGC 1220 (Lund 100, Cr 37) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 03 hours 11 minutes 41 seconds, Dec +53 degrees 20 minutes 54 seconds
Size: 2.0'; Magnitude: 11.8; Class: I 1 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, 220 minutes (22 x 10 minute subs), 12/9/2008; seeing 3.4-6.5 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: |
Took this image during a break in our recent spate of clouds ... however, there were offshore winds (Santa Ana's) that made the seeing terrible. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1220 NGC 1220 = Cr 37 = OCL-380 = Lund 100 03 11 41 +53 20.9 Size 2 17.5": very compact group of about a dozen faint stars mag 13.5-15 in a small 1.5' wedge-shaped clump. There is a very tight string of three strings at the NE end and the brightest mag 13 star is at the S end. Does not appear fully resolved due to density and background haze. 8": faint open cluster, small, six faint stars are visible over unresolved haze. - by Steve Gottlieb |