Berkeley 34

[dcrowson]

Berkeley 34 (Biurakan 13) is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class II 1 m open cluster approximately 24,800 light-years away in Monoceros.

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

182 minutes total exposure – 3 hours 2 minutes

Imaged January 18th and February 12th, 2024 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/ ... 6/sizes/l/

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



Dan

[Graeme1858]

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

That's an excellent collection of clusters Dan.

Graeme