Open cluster NGC 7062

Posted by dcrowson
on Thursday, October 20, 2016

NGC 7062 (Collinder 434) appears to be a trumpler class III 1 p open cluster located approximately 4,800 light-years away in Cygnus. My image is centered on some of the dark nebulae in the area. NGC 7062 is at the bottom left.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri (a red zone) on October 4th and 6th, 2016 with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90DT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/29818488344/sizes/l

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