DoDz 8 (OCL 104) Open Cluster* in Hercules
Located at: RA 17 hours 26 minutes 24 seconds, Dec +24 degrees 11 minutes 36 seconds
Size: 13'; Magnitude: 6.8; Class: IV 2 p* (Asterism)
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, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 07/17/2008; seeing 2.6-3.3 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:* | According to "Star Clusters", by Brent Archinal and Steven Hynes, DoDz 8 is an Asterism ... Brian Skiff [1994] has shown this group of stars not a true cluster. Aliases are Lund 750 and C1724+242 |