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M44 Beehive Cluster, Minos Kritikos
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M44 Beehive Cluster

M44 Beehive Cluster, Minos Kritikos
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M44 Beehive Cluster

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One of my favourite open clusters in the night sky, located in the constellation of Cancer and placed ~550 light years away from Earth. You can see this target with the naked eye under dark skies - I was looking at it through my 7x35 binoculars whilst acquiring the starlight.

Check the full image below to zoom in on these distant and colourful suns and keep in mind that each one has their own planetary worlds orbiting around them..

Hope you like it

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http://nova.astrometry.net/image/4523316

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M44 Beehive Cluster, Minos Kritikos

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