NGC 358 and NGC 366 Open Clusters in Cassiopeia
Center of field at approximately: RA 01 hours 06 minutes 10 seconds, Dec +62 degrees 07 minutes 47 seconds
Size: 3.0' and 3.0'; Magnitude: -- and --; Class: cluster?* and II 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, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 10/26/2008; seeing 2.1-2.6 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes:* | NGC 366 is the obvious cluster at top near center ... NGC 358
appears to be an Asterism. It is a small parallelogram of four stars
just to the West (right) of lower center.
From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) ...NGC 0358 01 05 10.9 +62 01 14 17.5": consists of just four mag 11-12 stars in a 2'x1' trapezoid at the NGC position. This appears to be clearly just an asterism. 10' SE is also a scattered group in two detached sections elongated E-W with about a dozen mag 12-13.5 stars in each group. - by Steve Gottlieb NGC 0366 = OCL-286 = Lund 37 = Cr 9 01 06 26 +62 13.7 Size 3 17.5": 10 stars mag 12-14 in a small 3' group. Consists of two mag 12-13 stars both of which form very close doubles and a tight trio of mag 13-14 stars on the east side. The rest are faint stars and the cluster is set over unresolved haze. Not impressive but stands out clearly in field. - by Steve Gottlieb |