NGC 225 (Cr 7) Open Cluster in Cassiopeia

Located at: RA 00 hours 43 minutes 30 seconds, Dec +61 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 12'; Magnitude: 7.0; Class: III 1 p n

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, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 10/11/2008; seeing 2.6-4.3 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: This field contains two objects that are not plotted on my software (Megastar v5.0.12). The plume of nebulosity just above NGC 225 is the Bright Nebula vdB 4 (GN 00.40.4), and just above vdB 4 is the southern end of the Dark Nebula LDN 1302