M47 (NGC 2422) Open Cluster in Puppis

Located at: RA 07 hours 36 minutes 36 seconds, Dec -14 degrees 29 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 29'; Magnitude: 4.4; Class: I 3 m

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector
Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56
Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 230 minutes  (23 x 10 minute subs) 3/10/2010; seeing 3.2-4.9 FWHM per CCDStack
Processing:

CCDStack 1.6.1, Photoshop 7.0
Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)
Notes:

Shot this Messier open cluster on a night of bad seeing ... may try a re-shoot later for better seeing