Open Clusters M67 and NGC 2539

It would be considered fairly late season for these objects (particularly NGC2539). This data was taken back in April. I have been somewhat busy with Artemis but finally got back to these ToUcam SC3 images.

I have attached a midsized thumbnail of M67. Full size image as well as exposure and processing details are at:

http://jthommes.com/Astro/M67.htm

And for NGC 2539....

http://jthommes.com/Astro/NGC2539.htm

The scope for both images was my C8 at f/2.8
Both images involved a total exposure time of about 24 minutes.

Attached Image:

Beautiful shots Jim!
Great tracking too... what mount are you using? autoguiding?


Thanks for sharing!

Jim,

Where did you find the nickname for M67? I wasn't aware that it had one.

http://www.seds.org/messier/m-names.html

http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/supp/d-names.html

http://www.geocities.com/rasctb/objnames.htm

http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy_messier_61to70.html

Dave Mitsky