NGC 1624 (Cr 53) / Sh2-212 (LBN 722) Open Cluster / Bright Nebula in Perseus

Located at: RA 04 hours 40 minutes 37 minutes, Dec +50 degrees 27 minutes 42 seconds

Size: 1.9' / 5.0'; Magnitude: 11.8 / --; Class: II 1 p n / Sharpless 1 2 3

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, 480 minutes (48 x 10 minute subs), 12/29/30/2008; seeing 2.4-3.4 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.4.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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