NGC 6820 (SH2-86) / NGC 6823 (Cr 405) Bright Nebula / Open Cluster in Vulpecula

Located at: RA 19 hours 43 minutes 23 seconds, Dec +23 degrees 16 minutes 00 seconds

Size: 24.7' x 12' / 12'; Magnitude: -- / 7.1; Class: (Sharpless) 1 2 2 / I 3 m n

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:

Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 470 minutes (47 x 10 minute subs), 10/26/27/28/2006

Processing:

CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes:

NGC 6823 is the Open Cluster in the center of the image; NGC 6820 (Sh2-86) is the surrounding nebulosity