2024-08-21

• Condition: G5
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

09:42PM

• Target: IC 4665[1]
• Const: Ophiuchus
• RaDec: 17h46m +05.43
• Type: Open Cluster[2]
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x
• Class: III 2 m
• Image: ../images/2024-08-21_IC4665.jpg[3]

Beautiful little cluster. It fit nicely at 55x. Many brighter stars spread out with dimmer stars peppered in betweeen. I would give it a Trumpler classification of III 2 m.

[1] IC 4665 (ID)

[2] Open Cluster (ID)

[3] ../images/2024-08-21_IC4665.jpg

09:57PM

• Target: T Coronae Borealis[1]
• Const: Corona Borealis
• RaDec: 16h00m +25.55
• Type: Star (Variable)[2]
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 55x

The magnitude seems a touch brighter than last time. I would estimate a 10.1

[1] T Coronae Borealis (ID)

[2] Star (Variable) (ID)