Open cluster Stock 2

Posted by dcrowson
on Friday, December 30, 2016

Stock 2 (OCL 348, Lund 71 and the Muscleman Cluster) is a class I 2 m open cluster of 54 stars in Cassiopeia. This is one of 24 open clusters compiled by Jurgen Stock in the 1950s. A full list can be found here - http://www.deepskypedia.com/wiki/List:Stock.

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 December 18th and 19th, 2016 with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90DT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/31150935364/sizes/l

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