Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  Beehive  ·  M 44  ·  NGC 2632  ·  Praesepe Cluster
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M44  the Beehive Cluster, RonAdams
M44  the Beehive Cluster
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M44 the Beehive Cluster

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M44  the Beehive Cluster, RonAdams
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M44 the Beehive Cluster

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There was a full Moon up and I was limited as to what I could image. I started to image

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula but after taking about 5 light frames I decided this was pointless.

I then imaged NGC 1342. After imaging NGC 1342 I looked around and decided to try

M44 because it's been a while since I imaged this object. I felt that it would be less affected

by the Moon than a nebula or galaxy would. That's not to say that the Moon doesn't affect

a cluster because it certainly does. A bright full Moon skews the color badly and also

causes a lot of gradients that have to be fixed. But since this was the first clear night I've

had in weeks I decided to image in spite of the Moon. Please enjoy my most recent image of M44.

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M44  the Beehive Cluster, RonAdams