By Diane Rains | 2023-12-18
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On 12/09/2023 12:39 am by David Hoskin | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Messier 44, also known as Praesepe/Beehive Cluster, is an open star cluster in the constellation Cancer. It consists of about 1,000 stars and is one of the nearest open clusters to Earth.
ZWO ASI183MC camera and Optolong L-Pro filter on a WO RedCat51 astrograph/SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro mount.
Subs (20 10min) plus calibration frames were stacked with DeepSkyStacker. Post-processing used Siril, Starnet++, Photoshop and Microsoft Photo.
