Hello! Hope you enjoy this simple image, we have not so much revisions around!
NGC 2516 / Caldwell 96 - Diamond Cluster :-)
5 x 180" each LRGB taken before imaging Eta Carinae...
Now the weather will be closed for aprox. 20 days/ 1 month...thats all I could do, Carina and NGC 2516, but Im very optimistic with the new rig...!
Ill see all my friends images that stayed behind...and sure do and answer the comments !!! All my best and good vibes to everyone who inhabits this tiny blue planet! :-)
Peace!
From Wikipedia:
This bright cluster itself is easily visible with the naked eye as a hazy patch, but is resolvable into stars using binoculars. It contains two 5th magnitude
red giant stars and three main
visual double stars: HJ 4027, HJ 4031 and I 29. A small
telescope would be required to split the double stars, which are all pairs of 8-9 magnitude and 1-10 arcseconds separation.
[5]NGC 2516 and the recently discovered nearby
star clusterMamajek 2 in
Ophiuchus have similar age and
metallicity. Recently, kinematic evidence was presented by E. Jilinski and coauthors that suggests that these two stellar groups may have formed in the same star-forming complex some 135 million years ago.
[6]The cluster is surrounded by the 500-parsec diameter halo consisting of stars ejected from cluster.
[7]
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