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IC348, Ray Heinle
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IC348

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IC348

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I got started late on this object-after the meridian.  Soon I was acquiring into the bright sky of the "Phoenix Nebula," the Phoenix light dome.  That produced numerous artifacts.

IC348, also known as LBN 758 is the bluish star cluster just beneath the bright star Atik near the center of this dark and dusty image. Its a star cluster shrouded by clouds of dust. The dust glows a light bluish color. The star cluster shines at magnitude 7.3 and lies roughly 1000 light years distant. It contains nearly 400 stars but in optical wavelengths with my small telescope and ccd camera only about 50 stars are visible. It was in this 2 million year old cluster that back in 2009 astronomers discovered 3 low mass brown dwarfs, smaller than jupiter:

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IC348, Ray Heinle