"THE STARFISH CLUSTER" - Deepsky 1665mm LRGBhA - Area Constellation Auriga (Thomas ArtOfPix Großschmidt)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: M 38 · NGC 1912 · PK172+00.1

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"THE STARFISH CLUSTER" - Deepsky 1665mm LRGBhA - Area Constellation Auriga

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"THE STARFISH CLUSTER" - Deepsky 1665mm LRGBhA - Area Constellation Auriga

"THE STARFISH CLUSTER"
- Deepsky 1665mm LRGBhA
- Area Constellation Auriga

Messier 38, also known as the Starfish or PI cluster (German: Seetern) is located about 2750-3480 light years away. M36 and M37 are often mentioned together with M38. The cluster contains more than 100 visually visible member stars spread over an area of about 15 light years. With an age of 290 to 320 million years, Messier 38 is still a very young star cluster. It is located on the outer edge of the local Milky Way spiral arm, also known as the Orion Arm.

Telescope: AFIL-1 - AG10 CDK F6.7 f=1665mm
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8RH
Camera: FLI Proline 6303
Filters: Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Red, Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Green, Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Blue
Filter1 Astrodon 5nm NB filters Ha 50mm Round
Location: Lijiang, China (Gemini Observatory)
Image Data Acquired By Alpha Zhang

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Mainly Pixinsight, additionally Photoshop, Lightroom, GraXpertAI, BTX Blur Terminator, Noise Terminator, Star X Terminator
Elaboration and development by me, in LRGBhA.

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Astrometry.net job	8847164
PixInsight job	U542CS4Y50EZL0ML2ZLSV73RUBLADUD3
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h28m38s.917
RA (top/left)	05h29m59s.999
RA (top/right)	05h30m02s.345
RA (bottom/right)	05h27m17s.192
RA (bottom/left)	05h27m16s.480

Dec (center)	+35°49′37″.60
Dec (top/left)	+35°32′45″.28
Dec (top/right)	+36°06′04″.26
Dec (bottom/right)	+36°06′26″.25
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°33′07″.35

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