NGC 609 (Lund 50, King 3, Cr 16) Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
Located at: RA 01 hours 36 minutes 42 seconds, Dec +64 degrees 32 minutes 12 seconds
Size: 3.0'; Magnitude: 11.0; Class: II 3 r
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, 220 minutes (22 x 10 minute subs), 11/19/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
From the
NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 609 NGC 0609 = Cr 16 = King 3 = OCL-325 01 36 27 +64 32.2 V = 11.0; Size 3 13.1": faint, fairly small, diffuse, about six very faint stars over unresolved haze. Located 10' SSW of mag 6.6 SAO 11875. 8" (1/1/84): not found Discovered by d'Arrest. Alister Ling gives a position of 01 36 27 +64 32 12 based on Megastar. The NGC, RNGC and Sky Cat 2000 position is about 1 tmin too far E! - by Steve Gottlieb |