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2010/02/19 D.M.Conrad

Beehive Cluster / NGC2632 / M44

Sedro-Woolley, Wa.

Image center RA: 08h40m 36.0s DE:+19°56' 45"
Celestial North to the left and Celesial East at the bottom of the photo.
In the constillation of Cancer the Beehive Cluster is about 577 light years from Earth.
It is estimated that the age of the cluster is 500 to 600 million years old, containing red giants and white dwarfs.

Hutech Canon 40D,Borg 100ED /W 0.85 Reducer
8 X 10min. exposures at ISO 800
Aligned and stacked with Nebulosity
Older Mountain Instruments MI-250 tangent arm mount.
Borg 77Ach guide scope with an Orion Starshoot autoguider using PHD guiding full exif


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