NGC 358 and NGC 366 Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
Center of field at approximately: RA 01 hours 06 minutes 10 seconds, Dec +62 degrees 07 minutes 47 seconds
Size: 3.0' and 3.0'; Magnitude: -- and --; Class: cluster?* and II 3 m
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, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 10/26/2008; seeing 2.1-2.6 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:* | NGC 366 is the obvious cluster at top near center ... NGC 358 appears to be an Asterism. It is a small parallelogram of fours stars just to the west (right) of lower center. Contemporary description from a query of the NGC/IC Project Public Database is "Asterism of 4 bright stars" |