My Astrophotography
Open Clusters

Open Clusters you can observe visually with a binocular or if you want to take photos of them you can use camera lenses.

More to read about open clusters at Wikipedia:

Open Clusters
Messier catalogue
M34 Spiral Cluster	M35 Shoe-Buckle Cluster	M36, M37, M38
M37	M38 Starfish Cluster	M39 Pyramid Cluster
M44 Beehive Cluster	M45 Pleiades	M52 Scorpion Cluster
Melotte catalogue
Melotte 20 Alpha Persei Cluster	Melotte 111 Coma Star Cluster
New Generation Catalogue
NGC 752	NGC 1528	NGC 1662
NGC 2244 Rosette Nebula	NGC 2281 Broken Heart Cluster
NGC 6811	NGC 6939
NGC 7160	NGC 7380
Trumpler catalogue
Trumpler 37

If I had taken those photographs today (2025) I would use the following of my equipment.

Camera	Lens / Telescope	Reducer / Barlow	Mount	Comment
Nikon D800	TS130, 910 mm	x1	SkyWatcher EQ6
Nikon D800	Pentax 300 mm	x1	SkyWatcher HEQ5	Wide field
Canon 6D	Sigma 150 mm	x1	SkyWatcher Star Adventurer	Wide field

There are a lot of open clusters to choose from.

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Open Clusters