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.
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
Displayed:
9 times
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.