NGC 1502 (Lund 1254, Cr 45) Open Cluster in Camelopardalis
Located at: RA 04 hours 07 minutes 50 seconds, Dec +62 degrees 19 minutes 54 seconds
Size: 7.0' (20'); Magnitude: 6.9; Class: I 3 m
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 200 minutes (20 x 10 minute subs), 01/7/2009; seeing 2.0-3.0 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.4.1, 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 20 arc minutes. This images replaces a 150 minute Deep Sky filtered sequence from 11/02/2007 taken in poor seeing; also see the first 60 minute unfiltered Track & Accumulate. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1502 NGC 1502 = Cr 45 = OCL-383 = Lund 124 04 07 49 +62 19.9 V = 5.7; Size 8 13.1": bright, striking cluster, 40 stars visible in a trapezoidal outline. The brightest is the striking double ?485 = 7.0/7.1 at 18" and the cluster also includes ?484 = 9.0/9.5 at 5". Located near the SE end of chain of stars "Kemble's Cascade". - by Steve Gottlieb |
