Saturday, September 24, 2016

imaged NGC 1907 (Halifax)

The Burke Gaffney Observatory robot imaged NGC 1907 aka Collinder 66 for me. An open globular cluster in Auriga, just south of Messier 38. An item I wanted to view again. BGO happened to shoot it on my Happy Orbit Day. Thank you! A small collection, a compact OC, harbouring a multi-star system. While it is not a great image, it was a nice treat.

open cluster galaxy NGC 1907 in luminance

Luminance only, 60 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots. FITS Liberator, GIMP. North is up; left is east.

Seems I had first viewed this object, in passing, in March 2013. Did not make a very detailed note.

SEI 268, a five-element star system, is buried in the middle of the cluster. There's a line of three similar, equally spaced stars: that's the A, B, and C stars, from north to south. The bright star to the east is D. The dimmer star to the west is F, opposite D, slightly further away. SkyTools does not show an E star.

Above and left, or to the north-east, is the double star HJ 699. The brighter star is further afield.

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Had another go on 20 Dec '16.

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Wikipedia link: NGC 1907.

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