This image combined 24 minutes of green and blue exposures with 22 minutes of red exposures, for a total imaging time of 70 minutes. An ST10XME camera was used through a TEC 140mm refractor from my light-polluted backyard.
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| Open Cluster M36 is the most sparse of the trio of Messier clusters in Auriga, containing a mere 60 stars at a distance of 4,100 light years. As a young cluster of only 25 million years old, it remains dominated by bright short-lived blue-white suns. This image combined 24 minutes of green and blue exposures with 22 minutes of red exposures, for a total imaging time of 70 minutes. An ST10XME camera was used through a TEC 140mm refractor from my light-polluted backyard. |
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Music: Come Sail Away, by STYX | ||||||||||||||||||