M37 January Salt and Pepper Cluster in Auriga

            While I was setting up my C11 on Sunday I pointed it at M37, known as the January Salt and Pepper cluster in the constellation Auriga. I used these stars to adjust focus and set up tracking as there were plenty of points of reference.
Once that was done I took just three 60-second frames. I was pleasantly surprised at the results I got from just three minutes on this target. Even the red and the blue colours of these stars shows up.

Messier 37 (M37) is an open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It has the designation NGC 2099 in the New General Catalogue. M37 is the brightest, richest and largest of the three open clusters in this constellation that were catalogued by Messier. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.2 and lies at a distance of 4,511 light years from Earth.

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Telescope: Celestron C11-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain OTA
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
 
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Plus
Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C
Filter: ZWO UV/IR Cut filter 1.25"
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW 5 Mini
Focal reducer: TS Optics 0.63x
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam
Guide via: ZWO OAG
 
Stacked from:
Lights 3 at 60 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Darks 30 at 60 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Flats 30 at 40 ms, gain 101, temp -10C
Dark Flats 30 at 40ms gain 101 temp -10C
 
Bortle 4 sky.
Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor.
Processed in PixInsight
Labels added in Photoshop CS4
   

Taken on: June 3, 2024

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