Observations of NGC188
These are the observations available for NGC188. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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NGC 188 in Cepheus
I have upgraded the mount in my observatory from an EQ6 to an EQ8 and have taken the opportunity for a restructuring of the cabling and power supplies.
Looking for an interesting challenge as a first image, I selected NGC 188. At just 4 degrees from Polaris, it represents a challenge for observers with an equatorial mount due to the awkward geometry and is in a part of the sky that is not often observed.
First discovered by John Herschel in 1831, NGC 188 is an open cluster of old yellow stars sitting about 1,600 light years above the galactic plane and 5,000 light years from us. It is moderately faint, with a combined magnitude of 8.1 and containing around 200 stars of 10th to 18th magnitude with the 10 brightest stars being yellow giants.
This image of NGC 188 was provided by David Davies and taken from Cambridge in the UK. To see more of David's work please visit his Flickr Photostream. Click on the image for the larger version. Image Details
- Telescope: APM 107 Apo refractor
- Camera: QSI 583 with an SX Lodestar as off-axis guider
- Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
- Software: Pixinsight and Photoshop
David Davies - (22 November 2018).
