NGC 1662 (Cr 55) Open Cluster in Orion

Located at: RA 04 hours 48 minutes 29 seconds, Dec +10 degrees 55 minutes 48 seconds

Size: 20'; Magnitude: 6.4; Class: II 3 m

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, 170 minutes (17 x 10 minute subs), 01/19/2009; seeing 2.2-3.4 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)

Notes:

This image replaces my first red-filtered 64 minute Track & Accumulate image from 02/15/2006