NGC 7419

Posted by dcrowson
on Saturday, September 15, 2018

NGC 7419 (Collinder 453 and others) is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class II 3 r open cluster located approximately 6,500 – 13,000 (based on the two most recent distance estimates) light-years away in Cepheus.

Luminance – 12x300s – binned 1x1 – 60 minutes
RGB – 8x180s – 24 minutes each – binned 2x2

132 minutes total exposure – 2 hours 12 minutes

Imaged September 14th, 2018 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.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/44648681032/sizes/l

This one turned out very dark and the image has been lightened and is not clipped. I have a feeling it is obscured by dust.

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