On the longest dasy of 2024 and with an almost full Moon, I was able to capture two asterisms or groupings of stars known as the "Coathanger" and the "Mini Coathanger".
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The Coathanger
The “Coathanger” is also known as Brocchi's Cluster or "Collinder 399" and lies in the constellation of Vulpecular and comprises an asterism of 10 stars; six of which appear in a row, some 1.3° across the night sky. None of these ten stars are believed to be gravitationally bound to each other, thus they are not really a star cluster at all.
The Mini Coathanger is a mall asterism about 1/3° wide located between the stars ”Ciricitores” and “Akfa Farkadain” in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Little Bear).
The mini Coathanger
Data were acquired with an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair EDF60 doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR with RGB and Luminance filters combined into colour images and comprise 68 and 41 minutes exposures respectively.
Chris Bowden
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