4-H Cluster

AKA NGC 1664, it is an open cluster near the constellation of Auriga. NGC 1664 is a dim one. It is in the center of the photo frame. At magnitude 7.6 it cannot be seen by naked eye.

North (toward Polaris) is up in the photo. The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color camera) on a TEC 140 telescope in the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3).

12 15 second sub-frames were used and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = three minute photo. Binned 2X2. Unguided, no darks or flats. Processed in Photoshop (CS5).

Location in the night sky of the photo:

Source: Astometry.net

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