Deep Sky Object in Autumn
Perseus I Cluster (Abell 426)


Date & Time: Feb 1 2019, from 20:54 to 21:39 JST(+0900)
Composed 12 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3056×3056)
Device Size...25×20mm, Sensitivity...ISO4000


Abell 426 / Galaxy Cluster, type 2 0 II-III
R.A.03h 19m (Rough position)
Dec.+41° 30' (Rough position)
Apparent Size190'
# of Galaxies88
Red Shift0.0183
Magnitude12.5
Distance230 million light yrs.
Supergalactic clusterPerseus-Pisces supercluster
At the star field about 2 degrees ENE of Algol, you can find out a galactic cluster of Perseus I (Abell 426) containing several tens small galaxies. All dimmed lights captured in this image with a span of 1 degree are member galaxies belonging to the cluster.
You can recognize some fairly large galaxies of NGC1272, 1275 and 1278 in central region of cluster. And it's estimated that the galactic cluster is about 230 millions light years away.
Numbers with 4 digits represent NGC #



Abell 400
Abell 2634

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