King 17 is a type II 2 m open cluster located approximately 10,500 light-years away in Auriga. The brightest member appears to be around 14th magnitude.
Luminance – 12x300s – binned 1x1 – 60 minutes
RGB – 8x180s – 24 minutes each – binned 2x2
132 minutes total exposure – 2 hours 12 minutes
Imaged January 4th and 5th, 2017 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.
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