NGC 654 (Lund 53, Cr 18) Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
Located at: RA 01 hours 44 minutes 00 seconds, Dec +61 degrees 53 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 5.0' (6.0'); Magnitude: 6.5; Class: II 2 r
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 Deep Sky filter, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 11/15/2007 |
| 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 6.0 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 654 NGC 0654 = Cr 18 = Mel 9 = OCL-330 01 43 59 +61 53.0 V = 6.5; Size 5 13.1": 35 stars, rich, includes several doubles. Located just NW of mag 7.3 SAO 11950. 8": rich in faint stars including doubles. A mag 7 star is at the SE edge. - by Steve Gottlieb |