2026-02-10
- Condition: E6
- Quality: 19.79 mpsas
- Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87
7:16PM
- Target: NGC 1444
- Const: Perseus
- RaDec: 03h49m +52.39
- Type: Open Cluster
- Class: II 1 p
- Scope: AT102ED
- Setting: 143x, AV
Very small cluster and hardly noticeable. I would have easily missed it if I didn’t know it was there. NGC 1444 was located on my field atlas, so I was confident I had the correct location. It took a few minutes of AV to get some of the stars to peek in.
7:31PM
- Target: Σ 533
- Const: Perseus
- RaDec: 04h24m +34.18
- Type: Star (Multiple)
- Scope: AT102ED
- Setting: 89x
Great looking multiple star system. Σ 533 was framed nicely around some other brighter stars in the area. The third in a row of brighter stars with 55 and 56 Persei. C was very faint but did not require AV to see.