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Old 18-06-2006, 08:43 AM
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Got bored with Jupiter so here is a test shot...

OKay taken with an unmodified toucam through a 4" newt.

I decided to see how deep I could go with a standard toucam on the table of scorpius. Got it down to mag 10.33 possibly a little lower, 10.5? OKay taken with an unmodified toucam through a 4" newt.

Two pics.. One of the actual image taken through the toucam (500 frames through registax) The other of skymap pro view. I did notice that skymap missed a star ....... Can anyone confirm the existance of the star from another program? it's arrowed, its next to the brighter star.
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Old 18-06-2006, 09:04 AM
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Nice shooting. The program has missed 2 other stars that you have captured also..
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Old 18-06-2006, 11:26 AM
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What star catalogue is skymap using?

Or if you can give the RA and DEC I can try to find the same field in CDC.
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Old 18-06-2006, 11:50 AM
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OKay here is all the info regarding the object and whatever maps skymap was using. Limiting magnitude was 11.

Basic object information

Name: NGC 6231
Popular name: Table of Scorpius
Type of object: Open cluster
Magnitude: 2.0
Size: 15.0'

Position (epoch of date)

Right ascension: 16h 54m 40s
Declination: -41° 50' 15"
Constellation: Scorpius

Local information

Altitude: -13° 22' 2"
Azimuth: 181° 59' 45"

Rise: 14h 46m 31s
Transit: 23h 23m 29s
Set: 8h 4m 24s

Star atlas chart numbers:

Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas, Chart C-80
Millennium Star Atlas, Charts 1459-1460 (Vol III)
Sky Atlas 2000.0, Chart 22
Uranometria 2000 Chart 407, Vol 2


Revised NGC/IC Catalog Data

Wolfgang Steinicke, Feb 2001

Names and designations

NGC 6231
OCL 997
ESO 332-SC6

Type of object: Open cluster

Catalog position for epoch J2000.0

Right ascension: 16h 54m 10.8s
Declination: -41° 49' 27"


Object information

Magnitude: 2.0
Size: 15.0'

Object classification: I3p

Saguaro Astronomy Club v7.2 Catalog Data

Saguaro Astronomy Club, August 2000

Names and designations

NGC 6231
Dunlop 520

Type of object: Open cluster

Catalog position for epoch J2000.0

Right ascension: 16h 54m 12.0s
Declination: -41° 49' 00"

Constellation: Scorpius

Object information

Magnitude: 2.6
Size: 15.0'
Magnitude of brightest star: 4.7

Object classification: I 3 p n
Description: Cl,B,cL,pRi,st10..13
Notes: Table of Scorpius;If at dist of Pleiades 8 Bri *s =Sirius
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