NGC 6834 (Lund 909, Cr 407) Open Cluster in Cygnus
Located at: RA 19 hours 52 minutes 12 seconds, Dec +29 degrees 25 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 5.0' (6.0'); Magnitude: 7.8; Class: II 2 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, 230 minutes (23 x 10 minute subs), 08/5/6/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop CS5.1 |
| 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 6834 NGC 6834 = Cr 407 = Mel 225 = Lund 909 19 52 12 +29 24.5 V = 7.8; Size 5 17.5": 40 visible stars in a 8' diameter. A mag 10 star is in the middle of a line of seven mag 13 stars oriented SW-NE and also at the center of four mag 11/12 stars on a line oriented E-W. Sprays of stars emanate from the bright star to the SW and SE. A small clump of five stars lies 4' S of the mag 10 star. Planetary nebula N6842 is 38' ESE. - by Steve Gottlieb |