Berkeley 19

[dcrowson]

Berkeley 19 is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class IV 2 p open cluster located approximately 15,750 light-years away in Auriga.

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

182 minutes total exposure – 3 hours 2 minutes

Imaged December 21st, 2020 and February 18th, 2021 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.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 7/sizes/l/



Dan

[AstroBee]

Beautiful image Dan. I don't think I've ever seen anyone spend that much time on an open cluster. Especially such a relatively unknown one.