Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  41 Cnc)  ·  Almalaf (ε Cnc  ·  Beehive  ·  IC 2388  ·  M 44  ·  NGC 2632  ·  Praesepe Cluster  ·  The star 38 Cnc  ·  The star Meleph
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M44, Jochen Maes
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M44, Jochen Maes

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The data for this image was taken quite a while back, but I somehow managed to forget about it until cleaning up my data folders recently.

M44 is an open star cluster in the Cancer constellation, around 610 light years from earth.

The cluster contains roughly 1000 individual stars of various types and sizes/mass. It's also one of the closest open clusters to earth; making it fairly easy to observe.

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6x300" Red
6x300" Green
6x300" Blue

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M44, Jochen Maes