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M34

M34

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Object Notes:
  • Constellation: Perseus
  • Location: RA: 02h 42m 0.0s Dec: +42d 47' 00" Epoch 2000
  • Size: 35.0 arc-minutes
  • Magnitude: 5.2
  • Type: Open Cluster
  • AKA: ngc1039
Instrument: Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
Focal Ratio: f7.2 (prime focus)
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.)
Exposure: 12 x 1 minute Luminance unbinned,
6 x 1 minute each R/G/B, all unbinned
Guiding: Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date: 9/06/05
Post Processing: CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS

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