Type | Open Cluster |
---|---|
Magnitude | 8.5 |
Size | 7' |
Right Ascension | 0h 31' (2000) |
Declination | 63° 10' N |
Constellation | Cassiopeia |
Description | 13"-pB, pL, E, 20* nice dark lanes invl at 100X |
Classification | III 2 p |
Andrew Cooper
Jan 13, 2018 Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%
A notable clump of stars in a rich galactic starfield, good sized at 10' in diameter, bright, coarse, resolved, in the same field as NGC133 and NGC146 just to the north
Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885 Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)
Kappa. 0h28.6m 62d29'N Stands in a grand region― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917
12 Cassiopeiae | Berkeley 3 | Kappa Cassiopeiae |
King15 | NGC 103 | NGC 133 |
NGC 136 | NGC 146 | Patchick 78 |
Stock20 | Tycho's Supernova |
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