NGC 5460 Open Star Cluster

Centaurus

 (ra: 14:07. / dec -48:19)

June 2010, Star Party in Huellas de la Naturaleza with Proxima Sur 70 km away from Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

DATA

TYPE: Open Cluster

APPARENT MAGNITUDE: 5.6

SIZE: 35 arcs minutes

DISTANCE: 2500 light years

OBJECT DESCRIPTION AND IMAGE SESSION

Deep south in the constellation of Centaurus lies this peculiar shaped open cluster, 2 degrees south east form magnitude 2.52 Zeta Cen. Its main members are roughly 21 stars layered in a linear form. Within the core of the clusters lies PGC 50388 a very distance galaxy shining at magnitude 14.6 with an apparent size of 1.4 x 0.6 arc minutes. This cluster is a nice target for smaller telescopes.

IMAGE INFORMATION

SCOPE: Celestron SCT 8" working at 6.3

SKY CONDITIONS: Regular to bad night. Lot of humidity and poor seeing conditions.

CAMERAS: QSI 583 WS -20Cº

FILTERS: Astronomik Type 2

EXPOSURES: LRGB (20,20,20,20) 120 subs

GUIDING: William Optics ZenithStar 66 f6. Starlight Xpress Lodestar Camera. AA 3.71 Control Camera Plug-in

PROCESSING:  Images Plus Sigma Median Combination, No darks, nor flats, nor offsets. CCD Sharp Richardson Lucy Deconvolution, Photoshop CS