NGC-654 and LDN 1332, 1334, 1337 (Joel Shepherd)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: LDN 1332 · LDN 1334 · LDN 1337 · NGC 654 · VdB6

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NGC-654 and LDN 1332, 1334, 1337

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NGC-654 and LDN 1332, 1334, 1337

This is NGC-654, a relatively young open cluster in Cassiopeia, between 15 and 40 million years old, and the dark nebula LDN 1332, 1334 and 1337. There is also, apparently, a fair amount of dust between us and NGC-654, leading to a 1 magnitude extinction in brightness of its stars, and a yellow-reddening of a number of the stars in the cluster. This is composed of six hours of RGB exposures, with a synthetic luminance.

Remote imaging (down in SkyPi, NM) has been fun now that the monsoon has cleared, but not trouble-free. I've had two mount crashes: one due to my forgetting to enable meridian flip combined with an untimely laptop crash, and the second one due -- I think -- to starting a sequence in NINA while the mount was parked and the mount getting confused about its position. On top of it all, I'm having to get a custom flange made for my NiteCrawler focuser so it can focus in sub-freezing temps (every mm counts!), and as of tonight one of my cables has apparently wiggled free, rendering a filter wheel unusable. "Welcome to remote imaging!" as John, the SkyPi owner, chuckles. On the plus side, he's been super-responsive to my needs. It's a little frustrating at times, but overall a decision that I don't regret.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	5199661
PixInsight job	GMHNWZPKBPYE2A96PVN0YN6A7NQZ6KVW
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	01h44m03s.33
RA (top/left)	01h47m08s.21
RA (top/right)	01h40m56s.34
RA (bottom/right)	01h41m01s.54
RA (bottom/left)	01h47m06s.41

Dec (center)	+61°56′09″.4
Dec (top/left)	+62°13′18″.2
Dec (top/right)	+62°13′03″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°38′46″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°39′00″.8

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