NGC 6830 (Lund 908, Cr 406) Open Cluster in Vulpecula
Located at: RA 19 hours 51 minutes 00 seconds, Dec +23 degrees 03 minutes 50 seconds
Size: 12' (6.0'); Magnitude: 7.9; Class: II 2 p
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, 190 minutes (19 x 10 minute subs), 10/4/2007 |
| 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 6830 NGC 6830 = Cr 406 = Mel 224 = Lund 908 19 50 59 +23 06.0 V = 7.9; Size 12 17.5": 30-35 stars in the central 5' diameter. Most stars are mag 11-12 and arranged in two rows forming a rough "X" shape. The richest group is at the NW corner and a very faint group is off the SW corner. The brightest star is just SW of the intersection point of the "X". - by Steve Gottlieb |