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NGC 457 - The Owl Cluster
An open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 7,900 light-years distance from our Solar System.  The "eyes" are the magnitude 5 star Phi-1 Cassiopeiae and magnitude 7 Phi-2 Cassiopeiae.

NGC 457 - The Owl Cluster

An open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 7,900 light-years distance from our Solar System. The "eyes" are the magnitude 5 star Phi-1 Cassiopeiae and magnitude 7 Phi-2 Cassiopeiae.




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Filename:NG457-_20150822.jpg
Album name:27telp / Star Clusters
Location and Date:OCA site near Anza, CA, USA; 8/22/2015
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 refractor, QSI-583wsg CCD camera, Astro-Physics 1200GTO mount, Borg Mini-50 guidescope, Starlight Xpress Lodestar guide camera
Settings:Luminance - 12 600 second exposures, bin 2x2; Red, Green and Blue - 12 360-second exposures, bin 4x4
Notes:Captured with MaxIm DL v5.12, processed with CCDStack2 and Photoshop CS4
Filesize:963 KiB
Date added:Jun 20, 2019
Dimensions:1663 x 1252 pixels
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Color Space:Uncalibrated
EXIF Offset:428
EXIF Version:version 2.31
Image Description:An open star cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 7,900 light-years distance from our Solar System. The "eyes" are the magnitude 5 star Phi-1 Cassiopeiae and the magnitude 7 Phi-2 Cassiopeiae.
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Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 8.3.1 (Windows)
X Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
IPTC Title:NGC 457 - The Owl Cluster
IPTC Copyright:Copyright J. L. Floyd 2019
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