{"id":556,"date":"2010-12-17T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/12\/17\/ngc_559\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T22:00:46","slug":"ngc_559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/12\/17\/ngc_559\/","title":{"rendered":"NGC 559"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sketch<\/a><\/p>\n

Sketch of NGC 559
Click image for larger version.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Observation Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n

This grainy, irregular open cluster lies at the head of a chain of splattered stars at low power. At 120X, it is bracketed by two bright, wide doubles. Three brighter stars mark its southeast corner as a triangle. I plotted 13 stars within, but others were flickering into grasp as I continued to observe. It did not appear condensed, was pretty rough around the edges, appeared elongated northeast to southwest, and was about 6 x 5 arcminutes in diameter.<\/p>\n

\"DSS<\/p>\n

Sketch\/DSS Photo Comparison of NGC 559<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Subject<\/b><\/td>\nNGC 559<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other Desig.<\/b><\/td>\nCr 13, OCL 322, Lund 45, H VII-48, h 124, GC 330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Classification<\/b><\/td>\nOpen Cluster (I 1 m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position*<\/b><\/td>\nCassiopeia: [01 29 29.1 +63 18 30]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size<\/b><\/td>\n4.4′<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brightness*<\/b><\/td>\n9.5 vMag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Time<\/b><\/td>\nOCT 03, 2010, 11:45 PM MST
(OCT 04, 2010, 0645 UT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Observing Loc.<\/b><\/td>\nHome – Flagstaff, Arizona, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instrument<\/b><\/td>\nSkyQuest XT8 (8 inch f\/5.9 Dobsonian)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eyepieces\/Mag.<\/b><\/td>\nPentax XW10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conditions<\/b><\/td>\nMostly clear, calm, humid, cool<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seeing<\/b><\/td>\n4\/10 Pickering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transparency<\/b><\/td>\nSQM 20.5 mag\/arcsec2<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*Sources<\/b><\/td>\nSIMBAD<\/a>; DSS<\/a>; NGC\/IC Project<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NGC 0559<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,19,25,22,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sky","category-open-cluster","category-sg-deep-sky","category-sg-open-cluster","category-sg-star-cluster","category-sgc-cassiopeia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/10\/18\/ngc_457_and_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":0},"title":"NGC 457 and NGC 436","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 457 and NGC 436","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/02\/03\/m35_and_ngc_215\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":1},"title":"Messier 35 and NGC 2158","author":"jperez1690","date":"February 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"M035","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/08\/28\/ngc_663\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":2},"title":"NGC 663","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 0663","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":293,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/10\/27\/ngc_654\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":3},"title":"NGC 654","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 0654","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":349,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/08\/15\/ngc_6866\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":4},"title":"NGC 6866","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 6866","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/10\/27\/ngc_1647\/","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":5},"title":"NGC 1647","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 1647","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}