Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  M 67  ·  NGC 2682
Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2, Ray Caro
Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2
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Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2

Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2, Ray Caro
Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2
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Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2

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I have already photographed this cluster in a wide field, about a year ago. This time I wanted to have it in closer, with my Tamron 150-600 pushed to 1200 mm.

The discovery of Messier 67 or NGC 2682 is attributed to Johann Gottfried Koehler shortly before 1789 and it is Charles Messier who rediscovered it and resolved it in stars, in 1780.

This open cluster in the constellation Cancer is atypical. This is one of the oldest clusters of our Milky Way, with an estimated age of 3.2 to 5 billion years, much the same as that of our solar system.

Strangely enough, it did not break up, like most clusters, until he reached that age, and it looks like it could still exist for several billion years.

Messier 67 includes about 500 members including red giants, white dwarfs, and the unexplained presence of bluish stars, given the age of the cluster.

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Messier 67 - King Kobra Cluster in Cancer - Tamron 150-600 x2, Ray Caro