NGC 7062 (Lund 988, Cr 434) Open Cluster in Cygnus
Located at: RA 21 hours 23 minutes 29 seconds, Dec +46 degrees 23 minutes 03 seconds
Size: 6.0' (5.0'); Magnitude: 8.3; 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, 200 minutes (20 x 10 minute subs), 07/28/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.2, 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 5.0 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 7062 NGC 7062 = Cr 434 = Lund 988 = OCL-205 21 23 27 +46 22.7 V = 8.3; Size 7 17.5": about 30 stars mag 10 and fainter in a 5' diameter at 220x. The brightest stars form a parallelogram enclosing the cluster. A mag 10 star is at the east end and a mag 11 star is at the west end. Most of the cluster stars in the interior are mag 12.5-14. 8": rich, small. Includes many mag 12-13 stars over haze, very mottled and dense. - by Steve Gottlieb |