M41

[dcrowson]

M41 (NGC 2287 and others) is a trumpler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpler_classification) class I 3 r open cluster consisting of around 40 stars approximately 2,240 light-years away in Canis Major.

Luminance – 10x600s – 60 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 10x600s – 60 minutes each – binned 1x1

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged over seven nights in January, February, March and November, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 8/sizes/l/



Dan

[Juno16]

That’s a beautiful image Dan.

[Graeme1858]

It's a jewel box!

Nice one Dan.

Regards

Graeme