M38: An open cluster in Auriga
Image taken: Jan. 9, 2019
By: Keegan Kurpakus
Telescope: CDK 17 in
Camera: SBIG ST-10 CCD
Exposures: 13x300
sec (red), 13x300 sec (green), 13x300 sec (blue), a total of 3
hours and 15 minutes.
Image processing: CCDoops + CCDsoft +
Photoshop CS.
M38 is one of the 110
globular clusters in our Galaxy, a fairly bright (6.4 mg)
collection of a hundred thousand stars.