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(IAAC) Obj: NGC7281 - Inst: Celestron 8" SCT, fork
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Observation Poster: Don Clouse <dlcdeepsky@insightbb.com>
Observer: Don Clouse
Your skills: Intermediate (some years)
Date/time of observation: 9/2/2002 11.20pm EST
Location of site: southern Indiana, USA (Lat 38N, Elev 780 ft.)
Site classification: Rural
Sky darkness: 6 <1-10 Scale (10 best)>
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Moon presence: None - moon not in sky
Instrument: Celestron 8" SCT, fork
Magnification: 58x, 50x
Filter(s): none
Object(s): NGC7281
Category: Open cluster.
Class: 2 3 m
Constellation: Cep
Data: mag size 12.0'
Position: RA 22:25 DEC +57:51
Description:
At 58x (35mm Ultima, 50' tfov), NGC7281 was a large, faint grouping not well
detached from the field. Boundaries are difficult to determine, but I make
it at about 10'in size with a more concentrated, N/S aligned group sitting on
the cluster's western end. A line of the cluster's (?) three brightest stars
seems to mark the north boundary. Twenty stars were seen in the somewhat
arbitrary borders. At 50x (40mm Optiluxe, 1.2d tfov), NGC7261 sets
comfortably in the same field with NGC7261. Each is more obvious as a cluster
in this wider field of view.
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