NGC 6940 (Cr 424) Open Cluster in Vulpecula
Located at: RA 20 hours 34 minutes 36 seconds, Dec +28 degrees 19 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 31'; Magnitude: 6.3; Class: III 2 r
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 Deep Sky filter, 110 minutes (11 x 10 minute subs), 07/21/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
This open cluster is hardly recognizable in this rich Vulpecula star field and image scale. The listed size of 31 minutes fills this field (top to bottom) |