Stock 23 (Lund 104, OLC-375) Open Cluster in Camelopardalis
Located at: RA 03 hours 16 minutes 17 seconds, Dec +60 degrees 02 minutes 06 seconds
Size: 14' (29'); Magnitude: --; Class: II 3 p n
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, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 11/30/2008; seeing 2.2-4.1 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.4, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | Stock 23 is also known as "Pazminos's cluster". Named by Walter
Scott Houston for John Pazmino. Stock 23 is entwined in the faint bright
nebula Sh2-202,
which is located about 3 degrees due
East of IC 1848. Had I known about the
nebulosity when imaging this object, I would have doubled (at least) the
exposure time. According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, the size of Stock 23 is 29 arc minutes |