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Object
............................................ IC 1434
Constellation .............................. Lacerta
Distance + Ap. Magnitude....... 8.100 Light years
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Date + Time ............................... 1/10/2010 - 19:20 UTC
Location ....................................
Remote imaging from Lightbuckets - France / South Alpen
Optics .........................................
Planewave 17''
Tools .......................................... -
Camera .....................................
SBIG STL
11000M
Exposure Time.......................
Luminance: 18 X 300sec , RGB : 6 X 300 (each)
More Details ...........................
Environment Temperature : - - oC Camera Temperature -30οC
Mount ....................................... Paramount
ME
Guiding .................................... Off axis
guided
Processing Details ................ Photoshop ,
Maxim , CCDsoft
Notes ........................................ Weather:
- - Transparence: - - Humidity : - -
Target details .........................
Perhaps in Johann Elert Bode's catalog of 1777.
Independently found by Espin in 1793. This open cluster is contained
in Johann
Elert Bode's
list of 75
nebulous objects as Bode 1. While Bode doesn't give details on
its discovery or any observations, it seems that this may be his own
discovery, in particular as he lists it with source "Bode" in his
1782 Atlas, "Vorstellung der Gestirne" (Introduction of the
Luminaries).The few treatments of Bode's list usually presume that
Bode 1 is non-existent. The nearest NGC clusters are NGC 7226 and
NGC 7243 , but both are several degrees off from Bode's position.
The present author has found the proximity to the cluster IC 1434
some time ago. Also, at least, there are contemporary positive
observations of this object with moderate telescopes. It contains
about 40 stars scattered over a diameter of 8 arc minutes. The
brightest of these stars is of about 12th magnitude, the whole
cluster of mag 9. It was also cataloged as Collinder 445 and as
Melotte 239. It was not deeper studied until
Tadross (2008), who determined some of its fundamental
parameters, such as its distance as about 8,100 ly, and its age as
some 900 million years.
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