Collinder 463 (Lee)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: 50 Cas · 54 Cas · PGC 137632 · PGC 137637 · PGC 137654 · PGC 137661 · PGC 137670 · PGC 137677 · PGC 137683 · PGC 137689 · PGC 137690 · PGC 137691 · PGC 137692 · PGC 137702 · PGC 137715 · PGC 137716 · PGC 137724 · PGC 137740 · PGC 137743 · PGC 137761 · PGC 137763 · PGC 137765 · PGC 137773 · PGC 137783 · PGC 137784 · PGC 137786 · PGC 137789 · PGC 137796 · PGC 137797 · PGC 137805 · And 33 more.

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During a full moon, shooting broadband is always going to be a challenge so I try and focus on star clusters/star fields. This time it was the fortuitous find of Collinder 463. I'd been shooting a star field near by (see here) and realised I wasn't going to get much from it (I'd still hoped for some faint background stuff) so started to increase the field of view in NINA and found this nearby. A search of Astrobin only found a handful of images.

This is an unusual framing as the original plan which seemed like it would work just didn't look right so I took this crop instead. Collinder 463 is the large cluster to the right of centre.

The gradients from the moon were terrible, so working with this was challenging and hope of anything in the background is long gone! About a third of the subs were culled for cloud.

Thanks for looking

Captured with NINA, pre-processed in APP and GraXpert, processed in PixInsight.

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Astrometry.net job	8524939
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	01h50m44s.80
RA (top/left)	02h10m52s.45
RA (top/right)	01h29m43s.26
RA (bottom/right)	01h32m18s.65
RA (bottom/left)	02h10m16s.81

Dec (center)	+71°52′58″.5
Dec (top/left)	+72°39′20″.5
Dec (top/right)	+72°29′12″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+70°59′27″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+71°08′55″.4

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