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      Messier 103
       Open Cluster in Cassiopeia
           RA:01h 33m 02s  Dec: +60 42' 00" Distance - ~9500 ly Size- 10.41 ly

Location & Date
Backyard, Abbott Observatory- Long Island, NY,  September 2022
Telescope
TMB130SS  910mm F/7 APO, Moonlite focuser, Losmandy G11 Gemini
Image scale 1.54 arcsec/pixel
Camera
SBIG ST-10XME
Baader LRGB  filters
CCD temp -10°C
Exposures
L-12x3m  Red-12x3m  Green-12x3m  Blue-12x3m Bin 1x1
Planning & Acquisition
Sequence Generator Pro

Processing
CCDStack -  Calibration, Debloom
Astro Pixel Processor - LRGB Frame processing, RGB combine
Adobe PS -  L + RGB blend,  JPEG conversion
RC-Astro Star XTerminator & NoiseXTerminator


Wikipedia-

Messier 103 (also known as M103, or NGC 581) is an open cluster where a few hundred, mainly very faint, stars figure in Cassiopeia. It was discovered in 1781 by Charles Messier's friend and collaborator Pierre Méchain. It is located between 8,000 to 9,500 light-years from the Solar System and ranging over about 15 light years. It holds about 40 certain-member stars, two of which have magnitudes 10.5, and a 10.8 red giant, which is the brightest within the cluster. A bright known foreground object is the star Struve 131, not a member of the cluster. The cluster may have 172 stars if including those down to 50% probability of a gravitational tie. M103 is about 22 million years old.

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Messier 103 position shown relative to our location (Sun) in the Milky Way Galaxy
Galatic Longitude: 128.1
Galatic Latitude: -4.31
Distance from Galatic Plane:169 ly below the galatic plane

Above image and info provided by Our Galaxy 3D Atlas application and used with permission by Otherwise