NGC 7063 (Lund 990, Cr 435) Open Cluster in Cygnus
Located at: RA 21 hours 24 minutes 30 seconds, Dec +36 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 7.0' (9.0'); Magnitude: 7.0; Class: III 1 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, 150 minutes (15 x 10 minute subs), 10/5/2007 |
| 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 9.0 arc
minutes. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 7063 NGC 7063 = Cr 435 = Lund 990 = OCL-192 21 24 21 +36 29.2 V = 7.0; Size 8 17.5": about 35 stars mag 9-15 in a 10' region. Very bright, fairly large, elongated ~N-S. Includes about ten bright stars mag 9-10.5. This is a scattered group with no rich sections. A line of four bright stars is at the west edge and a curving arc of bright stars is just following. Includes a triple star consisting of a close well-matched mag 12.5 double star and a wider third member. - by Steve Gottlieb |