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Berkeley 2

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Berkeley 2, just to the right of center, is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class I 3 m open cluster located approximately 17,123 light-years away in Cassiopeia.

Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 minutes
RGB – 8x180s – 24 minutes each – binned 2x2

182 minutes total exposure – 3 hours 2 minutes

Imaged November 20th and December 4th and 5th, 2020 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

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Re: Berkeley 2

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Excellent image Dan. You don't see a lot of amateur images of the Berkeley clusters.
Alan

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