NGC 2302 (Lund 264) Open Cluster in Monoceros

Located at: RA 06 hours 51 minutes 54 seconds, Dec -07 degrees 05 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 2.5' (5.0'); Magnitude: 8.9; Class: III 2 m

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 260 minutes (26 x 10 minute subs), 03/5/6/2009; seeing 2.3-3.1 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.5.2.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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