M35/NGC2158

Open Clusters

Constellation- Gemini

Right Ascension: 6h 9m 16s

Declination: 24° 20' 04"

Distance: 2800 light years

Visual Brightness: 5.3 mag and

NGC2158 = 8.6 mag, 16,000 light years, and 5 arc minutes

Apparent Dimension: 28 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- January 19^th, 2006

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -25C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- RGB=6 x 300 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in AstroArt 2.0