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  • RA: 23:24.2
  • Dec:  +61:35
  • Magnitude: 7.3
  • Size: 13.0 arc min
  • Distance: 5,000 ly
  • Constellation:  Cassiopeia
  • Scope: 8" SCT at f/10
  • Autoguider: ST-4 faint mode
  • Sky conditions:  Good seeing and transparency.
  • Film: Kodak Supra 400
  • Exposure: 30 minutes
  • Date:  September 20, 2004

Comments:  This was a pretty good night with a low only in the mid 40s.  M52 is a fine open cluster located in a rich Milky Way field.  It was one of Messier's original discoveries and was cataloged on September 7, 1774.  The cluster is about 35 million years old.