Sh2-173 (LBN 593) / Mayer 1 Bright Nebula / Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
Located at: RA 00 hours 21 minutes 52 seconds, Dec +61 degrees 44 minutes 17 seconds
Size: 25' x 25' / 8.0'; Magnitude: --/ --; Class: (Sharpless) 1 2 2 / IV 2 p 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: |
Lumicon Red filter, 600 minutes (60 x 10 minute subs), 09/24/25/26/2008; seeing 2.0-3.1 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 object is a little too faint for my conditions (using the Lumicon Red filter). This would be a good one to try a narrow band Ha filter |