NGC 1528 (Lund 126, Cr 47) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 04 hours 15 minutes 19 seconds, Dec +51 degrees 12 minutes 42 seconds
Size: 23' (18'); Magnitude: 6.4; Class: II 2 m
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 Deep Sky filter, 110 minutes (11 x 10 minute subs), 11/3/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, 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 18 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1528 NGC 1528 = Cr 47 = Mel 23 = OCL-397 04 15 19 +51 12.7 V = 6.4; Size 24 13.1": 80-100 stars in a 20' diameter. There are three bright stars on the W side including mag 8.5 SAO 24496 and mag 9.0 SAO 24501, includes many faint stars. Extremely faint naked-eye object in dark sky! - by Steve Gottlieb |