NGC 7142 (Lund 1000, Cr 442) Open Cluster in Cepheus
Located at: RA 21 hours 45 minutes 12 seconds, Dec +65 degrees 46 minutes 23 seconds
Size: 12'; Magnitude: 9.3; Class: I 2 r
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 Red filter, 440 minutes (44 x 10 minute subs), 08/10/11/15/2008; seeing 2.7-3.3 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
Cepheus is in a dusty region of the Milky Way ... just to the WNW (upper right) is the edge of a cloud of 'dust' that envelopes NGC 7129 (about 25 ' NNW), shown well in this very deep color image by Tony Hallas. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 7142 NGC 7142 = Cr 442 = Lund 1000 = OCL-241 21 45 09 +65 46.5 V = 9.3; Size 4 13.1" (7/20/85): fairly rich but somewhat scattered in parts, large. Includes three brighter mag 10 stars but otherwise fairly uniform and rich in mag 12.5- 13.5 stars. 8": large, spread out. There is a string of stars on the E and SE edge. - by Steve Gottlieb |