2023-10-09

• Condition: E6
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

7:52PM

• Target: NGC 6819, Collinder 403[1]
• Const: Cygnus
• RaDec: 19h41m +40°11
• Type: Open Cluster[2]
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 60x
• Image: ../images/2023-10-9_NGC6819.jpg[3]

Very small and faint cluster. AV is not required, but helps resolve the shape and some of the smaller stars. Pushed the magnification to 100x and I could start to see some "arms" that branched out from the cluster.

I also attempted NGC6946 and NGC6818 tonight, but seemed to fail at finding both.

=> [1] NGC 6819, Collinder 403 (ID) | [2] Open Cluster (ID) | [3] ../images/2023-10-9_NGC6819.jpg