Berkeley 61

[dcrowson]

Berkeley 61 is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class III 1 p open cluster approximately 9,500 light-years away in Cassiopeia.

Luminance – 24x300s – binned 1x1 – 120 minutes
RGB – 8:14:19x180s – 24:42:57 minutes each – binned 2x2

243 minutes total exposure – 4 hours 23 minutes

Imaged October 8th and 18th and November 5th, 2023 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/ ... 9/sizes/l/

See my full Berkeley Open Clusters album here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 466876833/.



Dan

[Lady Fraktor]

A very nice image.

[StarHugger]

Another nice catch Dan, Very cool to see these...

Thank You !

[Graeme1858]

Nice one Dan

Open Clusters seem to be catching on round here!

Graeme