M44, NGC 2632, CR 189, "Praesepe" AKA, "The Beehive cluster", widefield (Roy Hagen)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cancer (Cnc) · Contains: 33 Cnc · 33 eta Cnc · 35 Cnc · 38 Cnc · 39 Cnc · 40 Cnc · 41 Cnc) · 41 eps Cnc · 42 Cnc · 47 Cnc) · 47 del Cnc · Almalaf (ε Cnc · Asellus Australis · Beehive · Beehive cluster · Cancer · IC 2388 · IC 2390 · IC 2392 · IC 2399 · IC 2409 · IC 2410 · IC 2411 · IC 2414 · M 44 · NGC 2624 · NGC 2625 · NGC 2632 · NGC 2637 · NGC 2643 · And 15 more.

M44, NGC 2632, CR 189, "Praesepe" AKA, "The Beehive cluster", widefield

Revision title: Fixing a color gradient

M44, NGC 2632, CR 189, "Praesepe" AKA, "The Beehive cluster", widefield

Revision title: Fixing a color gradient

Not much work to do for small telescope in the galaxy season, but I got a couple of clear nights this weekend and a possibility to collect some photons at the end of the season so I took the opportunity to image Messier 44, The Beehive cluster in the constellation The Cancer.
This beautiful, open cluster of stars lies in a distance of 610 lightyears from earth and contains around 1000 stars.
This cluster is described by Ptolemy and also observed by Galileo with a telescope

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RA (center)	08h40m30s.15
RA (top/left)	08h51m39s.19
RA (top/right)	08h31m33s.28
RA (bottom/right)	08h29m31s.48
RA (bottom/left)	08h49m15s.40

Dec (center)	+19°40′55″.7
Dec (top/left)	+20°50′16″.1
Dec (top/right)	+21°37′39″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+18°29′16″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+17°42′55″.9

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