Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Vulpecula (Vul)  ·  Contains:  IC 1299  ·  LDN 739  ·  LDN 740  ·  PK055+01.1  ·  The star 4 Vul  ·  The star 5 Vul  ·  The star 7 Vul
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Coathanger (Brocchi's Cluster), m159267

Coathanger (Brocchi's Cluster)

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Coathanger (Brocchi's Cluster), m159267

Coathanger (Brocchi's Cluster)

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I stumbled across this asterism while in Stellarium. It brought back memories of my earlier days of visual astronomy with my Starmaster 14.5" scope. The Coathanger's location was near the meridian so I knew it would be nearing my western tree line soon. I was surprised to obtain 3+ hours on a breezy night - my guiding graph looked like a series of saw teeth with guiding between .8 and 1.10 (usually the guiding is .4-.6). The stars however stayed round for all my images.
I added star spikes via PS Astronomy Tools but they did not look right - so no star spikes.

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Coathanger (Brocchi's Cluster), m159267