Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2516
Brilliant Southern Beehive, Jan Scheers
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Brilliant Southern Beehive

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Brilliant Southern Beehive

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Image of the Southern Beehive, NGC 2516, an open cluster in the Carina constellation.

NGC 2516 is an open star cluster located 1,217 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. It is also known as Caldwell 96, the Southern Beehive, and the Sprinter.
It contains two 5th magnitude red giant stars and three main visual double stars.
The cluster is surrounded by a 500-parsec diameter halo consisting of stars ejected from cluster.

This LRGB image was acquired with the ASA500N telescope and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total integration time only 40 minutes
LRGB: 2 subs of 300s with each filter.

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel Pro, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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Brilliant Southern Beehive, Jan Scheers