M52 Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
| Right Ascension |
23 : 24.2 (h:m) |
| Declination |
+61 : 35 (deg:m) |
| Distance |
5.0 (kly) |
| Visual Brightness |
7.3 (mag) |
| Apparent Dimension |
13.0 (arc min) |
More information
on M52
| 135 second (15 x 9 sec.) exposure using the PC camera
with Dave Allmon's QCV2 software on the 8" Newtonian.
Dark frame processing, image alignment, and stacking was done with
Dave Allmon's DarkGen program.
Final processing performed with Photoshop.
9/06/2000 |
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144 second (20x 12 sec) on the 8" Newtonian
This image was not cropped as tightly as the image above.
9/26/2000 |
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266 second (19 x 14 sec.) exposure. Newly processed image from the original frames, aligned and stacked with DarkGen, and processed using mask and screen functions in Photoshop.
10/28/2000 |
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Another newly processed image from the original frames using mask and screen functions in Photoshop.
10/31/2000 |
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