Caldwell 8 (NGC 559)

by Willem Jan Drijfhout

Objects in field: NGC 559, LDN 1325, LDN 1326

Equipment: Planewave CDK14, Moravian Instruments C3-61000 PRO

Integration: 7h 30m

One of the 25 star clusters from the Caldwell catalogue. This is Caldwell 8, nicknamed Ghost’s goblet by Stephen O’Meara. It is a small cluster, with a total of about 120 stars, of which only 40 are brighter than magnitude 12. During processing of this image, I tried every possible stretching method that I could think of. The trigger was the newly released Veralux script that promises automated…