M37

Open cluster

Constellation- Auriga

Right Ascension: 5h 52m 49 s

Declination: 32° 33' 14"

Distance: 4400 light years

Visual Brightness: 5.6 mag

Apparent Dimension: 24 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- December 20, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -30C, 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