M 52 (NGC 7654) Open Cluster in Cassiopeia

Located at: RA 23 hours 24 minutes 50 seconds, Dec +61 degrees 35 minutes 51 seconds

Size: 12'; Magnitude: 6.9; Class: II 2 r

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:

 Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 130 minutes (13 x 10 minute subs), 09/3/2006

Processing:

 CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes:

Another complex area of the sky containing a bevy of deep sky objects. Also imaged in this area is "The Bubble" (NGC 7635), NGC 7538 and NGC 7510