NGC 7789, AN OPEN CLUSTER IN CASSIOPEIA

Posted by Steve Pastor
on Friday, January 17, 2020
NGC 7789 is an open cluster found in the constellation Cassiopeia. The cluster was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783, and is estimated to be 6,000 light-years away. The exposure was a total of 4 hours exposure taken with a Takahashi CCA-250 f/5 astrograph with a QSI683wsg CCD camera (Astrodon Gen 2 filters) on a Paramount ME in Mayhill, NM on the nights of 22, 25 Oct. 2019 (4 X1200 sec @ -20 degrees C. lights though R, G, and B filters, respectively; 24 darks; 128 bias; 128 flats for R, G, and B, respectively). Processed with PixInsight 1.8.8-3 Ripley (X64) using the Weighted Batch Preprocessing Script. Deconvolution performed on a synthetic light.
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