NGC 744 (Lund 65, Cr 22) Open Cluster in Perseus
Located at: RA 01 hours 58 minutes 30 seconds, Dec +55 degrees 28 minutes 30 seconds
Size: 11' (5.0'); Magnitude: 7.9; 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 Red filter, 150 minutes (15 x 10 minute subs), 10/18/2008; seeing 1.9-2.6 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: |
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 744 NGC 0744 = Cr 22 = OCL-345 = Lund 65 01 58 30 +55 28.5 V = 7.9; Size 11 13.1": about two dozen stars in a 7' diameter including several fairly bright stars. The brightest is mag 7.8 SAO 22809 at the NNE edge. Pretty scattered appearance. - by Steve Gottlieb |