NGC 1624 (Lund 136, Cr 53) / Sh2-212 (LBN 722) Open Cluster / Bright Nebula in Perseus
Located at: RA 04 hours 40 minutes 37 seconds, Dec +50 degrees 27 minutes 42 seconds
Size: 1.9' (3.0') / 5.0'; Magnitude: 11.8 / --; Class: II 1 p n / Emission (Sharpless) 1 2 3
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, 480 minutes (48 x 10 minute subs), 12/29/30/2008; seeing 2.4-3.4 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 the open cluster NGC 1624 is 3.0 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1624 NGC 1624 = OCL 403 = Ced 37 = LBN 722 = Sh 2-212 = Cr 53 04 40 37.2 +50 27 41 V = 10.4; Size 5x5 13.1": fairly bright, round, compact glow surrounding a small group of at least five stars using a UHC filter. - by Steve Gottlieb |