NGC 1513 (Lund 125, Cr 46) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 04 hours 09 minutes 55 seconds; Dec +49 degrees 31 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 9.0' (12'); Magnitude: 8.4; Class: II 1 m
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: |
Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 150 minutes (15 x 10 minute subs), 11/28/2006 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.1, 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 12 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1513 NGC 1513 = Cr 46 = OCL-398 = Lund 125 04 09 55 +49 31.0 V = 8.4; Size 9 13.1": about 60 stars mag 11 and fainter over unresolved background glow. Located 50' SE of Lambda Persei (V = 4.3). - by Steve Gottlieb |