NGC 133 (Cr 3) / NGC 146 (Cr 5) / King 14 (Lund 19) Open Cluster in Cassiopeia

Center of field at approximately: RA 00 hours 32 minutes 01 seconds, Dec +63 degrees 16 minutes 51 seconds

Size: 7.0' / 6.0' / 7.0'; Magnitude: 9.4 / 9.1 / 8.5; Class: IV 1 p / II 2 p / III 1 p

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:

Lumicon Red filter, 300 minutes (30 x 10 minute subs), 10/07/08/2008; seeing 2.3-2.9 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: All three clusters are classified as "poor" (less than 50 stars). NGC 133 is also "not well detached from surrounding star field". It is more or less centered on the five stars forming a SSE line at a position forming an equilateral triangle with the other two more noticeable clusters