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OSC M52, Sh2-157, -158, -159, -161, -162, etc., Alan Brunelle
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OSC M52, Sh2-157, -158, -159, -161, -162, etc.

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OSC M52, Sh2-157, -158, -159, -161, -162, etc., Alan Brunelle
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OSC M52, Sh2-157, -158, -159, -161, -162, etc.

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A convenient target at the time this data was collected.  Though I have already done a few of the features in this field at narrower field and higher resolution, I thought that I would see what I could get all in one field.  I will certainly come back here with an even wider field setup next year, hopefully.  The Rokinon 135 should yield essentially the same detail as this with a wider field of view.  Otherwise, not much to say given the short time I have to get this out with family pulling me away from the desktop during the holidays.  I will fill in the details later when I get a few moments and get my office back! 

Note added:  Details completed!

One note to the area, other than the obvious emission subjects seen here are the striking open clusters seen in this frame.  The two listed on the Plate Solve, M52 and NGC7510 are rather striking in their brilliance, and for M52, size and density.  M52 almost approaches the appearance of a globular cluster.  Certainly it is not, and is likely doomed to disperse its stars throughout the galactic stellar field as is the fate of all open clusters.  Perhaps this one persists a bit longer than typical.  I find the oddly shaped NGC7510 as interesting, though the oddity seems restricted to the central grouping of the brightest stars.  In fact the more widely dispersed members of this group are roughly circular (spherical?).  There are two other stellar clusters that I see as obvious open clusters not listed in the mouseover plate solve.  One below M52 at about 7 o'clock seems to be listed twice as OCL 0443 or Cl Czernik 43.  (Not sure how to format these designations.)  The other obvious one is just to the right of NGC7510 on the edge of the frame.  This is OCL 0411 also otherwise designated as Cl Basil 2.  There is another very small one that seems to lie in the heart of Sh2-157.  Not sure if it is the power source for the emission nebula.

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