NGC225 / vdB4 - The Sailboat Cluster (John Dziuba)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD4179 · LBN 604 · LDN 1291 · LDN 1294 · LDN 1297 · LDN 1300 · LDN 1301 · LDN 1302 · NGC 225 · VdB4

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NGC225 / vdB4 - The Sailboat Cluster

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NGC225 / vdB4 - The Sailboat Cluster

NGC225 is a young (estimated 10 million year old) open star cluster in Cassiopeia. It is also known as the Sailboat cluster. One of NGC225s stars, the variable star V594 Cas, illuminates the blue reflection nebula vdB4.

While searching for a broadband target, I found this area to be interesting and challenging. It is a struggle to choose color intensities and brightness levels in dark nebula images like this. On the continuum of bland to cartoonish, I think I am somewhere in the middle with this one. Anything more dynamic just looked unnatural to me.

There have not been many ideal imaging nights out at SRO lately. The high thin cirrus clouds have been relentless. I had captured a lot more RGB data than this, but was only able to use a fraction of it. Hence the unbalanced RGB integration times. Perhaps it is worthy of adding more color data in the future.

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RA (center)	00h43m54s.584
RA (top/left)	00h45m23s.490
RA (top/right)	00h51m05s.620
RA (bottom/right)	00h42m20s.385
RA (bottom/left)	00h36m55s.502

Dec (center)	+61°58′32″.40
Dec (top/left)	+61°02′36″.00
Dec (top/right)	+62°25′05″.12
Dec (bottom/right)	+62°54′21″.50
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°30′34″.79

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