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M67 The King Cobra Cluster
Messier 67 (M67), also known as NGC 2682 or more commonly nicknamed the King Cobra Cluster, is an open cluster located in the northern constellation Cancer. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 6.1 and lies at an approximate distance of 2,610 to 2,930 light years from Earth. It is one of the oldest known open clusters and the single oldest open cluster listed by Messier in his catalogue, with an estimated age of 3.2 to 5 billion years.
This image is the result of 14 x 180s exposures, captured using a QHY8L and Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x reducer and field flattener. The images were captured using Sequence Generator Pro 3, preprocessing was done using PixInsight with final processing done in Photoshop CC.
M67 The King Cobra Cluster
Messier 67 (M67), also known as NGC 2682 or more commonly nicknamed the King Cobra Cluster, is an open cluster located in the northern constellation Cancer. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 6.1 and lies at an approximate distance of 2,610 to 2,930 light years from Earth. It is one of the oldest known open clusters and the single oldest open cluster listed by Messier in his catalogue, with an estimated age of 3.2 to 5 billion years.
This image is the result of 14 x 180s exposures, captured using a QHY8L and Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x reducer and field flattener. The images were captured using Sequence Generator Pro 3, preprocessing was done using PixInsight with final processing done in Photoshop CC.