NGC 1444 (Cr 43) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 03 hours 49 minutes 27 seconds, Dec +52 degrees 39 minutes 18 seconds
Size: 4.0'; Magnitude: 6.6; Class: IV 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, 190 minutes (19 x 10 minute subs), 10/10/2008; seeing 3.0-4.0 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1444 NGC 1444 = Cr 43 = OCL-394 = Lund 119 03 49 26 +51 39.3 V = 6.6; Size 4 17.5": at 220x, about 20 mag 7-14 stars scattered in a 5' diameter, not rich or impressive. The group mainly consists of a bright double star ?446 = 7/9 at 9" with a third fainter mag 13 star 12" NE of the bright mag 7 star. Just W is a line of four mag 10-12 stars oriented SW-NE. 8": consists of a mag 7.5 star with 7 faint stars just W. The brightest star is ?446 = 7.5/9.0 at 10". - by Steve Gottlieb |