NGC 1496 (Lund 122, Cr 44) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 04 hours 04 minutes 32 seconds, Dec +52 degrees 39 minutes 42 seconds
Size: 6.0' (3.0'); Magnitude: 9.6; Class: III 2 p
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: |
Lumicon Red filter, 550 minutes (55 x 10 minute subs), 12/6/7/2011; seeing 2.4-3.4 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.65.4464.17853, Photoshop CS5.1 |
| 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 1496 NGC 1496 = Cr 44 = OCL-396 = Lund 122 04 04 32 +52 39.7 Size 6 17.5": 20 stars mag 12-15 in a 5' region elongated E-W. The cluster consists mainly of a semicircle open to the E with several nice close pairs! The brightest mag 11 star is on the NE end of the semicircle and the SE end is a very close double. An isolated mag 10 star is 4' SW and 0.8' NE of this star is an evenly matched mag 14 pair at 7" separation. - by Steve Gottlieb |