M38

Open Cluster

Constellation- Auriga

Right Ascension: 5h 29m 12s

Declination: 35° 50' 28"

Distance: 4200 light years

Visual Brightness: 6.4 mag

Apparent Dimension: 21 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- December 11, 2006

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- RGB = 4 x 600 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in CCDOps