| Object name: | Constellation: | Coordinates: | Apparent size: | Visual brightness: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Messier 67 (NGC 2682) | Cancer | 08h51m / +11°49' | 30' | 6.9 mag |
The open cluster Messier 67 (NGC 2682, also called King Cobra cluster) in the constellation Cancer. Messier 67 is one oldest known open clusters and contains about 500 stars. Estimates of its age range between 3.2 and 5 billion years. Messier 67 is 2,600 - 2,900 light-years from Earth and was discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in 1779 (source: Wikipedia).
Forty-eight 3-minute exposures (140 minutes total exposure) at ISO 400 and ISO 800 (half of each) taken on February 19 / 20, 2021 and on April 4, 2021 were added for this shot with the DeepSkyStacker software and the final image processing was done in Photoshop.
Equipment: Nikon D7500 Lifepixel h-alpha modified camera, TeleVue Paracorr Type II coma corrector, 16" f/4.5 "Ninja" dobsonian telescope riding on a dual-axis Tom Osypowski equatorial platform, Lacerta MGEN autoguider, Lacerta off axis system.
