Object: M34	Camera: Meade DSI-Pro II
Date: 11/1/2007	Telescope: Meade 80mm APO refractor
Total Exposure: RGB:15'20'20'	Subexposures: 2 minutes each
Location: West Boylston, MA

Processing:

• Aligned/combined all files in AutostarSuite Image Processing software
• Imported resulting files to Photoshop 7 via FITS liberator
• Adjusted levels and Curves
• Reduced small blue halo's via Noel Carboni's photoshop actions

Description:
M103
Discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654.

Open star cluster Messier 34 (M34, NGC 1039) is an intermediate aged open cluster of about 100 stars (according to H.S. Hogg), and lies about 1,400 light years and is scattered over 35 arc minutes, more than the diameter of the full Moon. This angular diameter corresponds to a linear 14 light years; Wallenquist has estimated a little more (42' corresponding to 18.5 light years).