2023-10-09
- Condition: E6
- Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87
7:52PM
- Target: NGC 6819, Collinder 403[1]
- Const: Cygnus
- RaDec: 19h41m +40°11
- Type: Open Cluster[2]
- Scope: AT102ED
- Setting: 60x
- Image: ../images/2023-10-9_NGC6819.jpg[3]
Very small and faint cluster. AV is not required, but helps resolve the shape and some of the smaller stars. Pushed the magnification to 100x and I could start to see some "arms" that branched out from the cluster.
I also attempted NGC6946 and NGC6818 tonight, but seemed to fail at finding both.
[1] NGC 6819, Collinder 403 (ID)
[2] Open Cluster (ID)
[3] ../images/2023-10-9_NGC6819.jpg
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