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(IAAC) Obj: King 10 - 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: 9/3/2002   1.25am EST
Location of site: southern Indiana, USA (Lat 38N, Elev 780 ft.)
Site classification: Rural
Sky darkness: 7 <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: 135x, 50x
Filter(s): none
Object(s): King 10
Category: Open cluster.
Class: 2 1 m
Constellation: Cep
Data: mag   size 3.0'
Position: RA 22:55  DEC +59:10
Description:
At 135x (15mm Panoptic, 30' tfov), King 10 is an extremely faint group of 8 to
10 stars scattered evenly over a 3'x2' NNW/SSE area.  Averted vision was
required for about half the group.  At 50x (40mm Optiluxe, 1.2d tfov), the
cluster was just detectable as a small misty patch with three stars resolved -
once I knew what to look for.
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