Was scouring the sky for targets with my Vixen and thought I would try for the first time using the scope without any filters from my Bortle 7/8 sky, obviously this limits what I am able to target with any real meaningful success. I landed on this and am pleasantly surprised with the results, it was not overly hard to process out the LP. Having two rigs running allows me to test and try out new things without the fear of missing out - FOMO recently learned this from my daughter haha.
A pair of interesting open clusters situated in the constellation Perseus, are NGC 1528, lower left and NGC 1545, top right, which is quite dispersed in comparison to its neighbour. The brightest star of NGC 1528 is a B7V star with a magnitude of 8.760 as determined by
J. H. Pena, J. Calderon and D. S. Pina. Through photoelectric photometry they were able to determine metallicity, age and membership of NGC 1528.
They are at a distance of ca. 3100 ly and 2320 ly years respectively.
The largest star in the image, centre to the right, is b Persei a triple star system consisting of an A type giant, a likely F type star in orbit and orbiting this binary is another star. Clearly none of this is visible in
my image so you only get the one star I am afraid
There is actually a nebula just out of shot, SH2-208, but elected not to include due to the current rig configuration
CS
Brad
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