M 48 (NGC 2548) Open Cluster in Hydra
Located at: RA 08 hours 13 minutes 44 seconds, Dec -05 degrees 45 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 54'*; Magnitude: 5.8; Class: I 3 r
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 Deep Sky filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 03/20/21/2008; seeing 2.7-4.0 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes:* |
M 48 is listed at 54 minutes in size ... way more than my imaging field of about 31' x 46' ... so the cluster members overfill this field. Notice three small 16th magnitude galaxies on eastern (left) side of the cluster |