NGC 6802 (Lund 895, Cr 400) Open Cluster in Vulpecula
Located at: RA 19 hours 30 minutes 35 seconds, Dec +20 degrees 15 minutes 47 seconds
Size: 3.2' x 5.0' (5.0'); Magnitude: 8.8; Class: I 1 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 Deep Sky filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 09/26/29/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | This interesting little open cluster is also known as 'The Coathanger
Cluster', due to its proximity to the asterism
Collinder 399 (aka 'The Coathanger', or 'Brocchi's Cluster',
60', mag 3.6, Cl: III 3 m). NGC 6802 is about 1.1 degrees ENE (to
the right in this image) of the center of Collinder 399. According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, the size of this open cluster is 5.0 arc minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 6802NGC 6802 = Cr 400 = Lund 895 = OCL-114 19 30 35 +20 15.7 V = 8.8; Size 3 13.1": about two dozen stars are visible over extensive unresolved haze in an elongated N-S group. 8": bar-shaped N-S, faint, even surface brightness. A few mag 13 stars are resolved. Surrounded by two double stars to the W and N. - by Steve Gottlieb |