Messier 47

M47 (NGC 2422) is an open cluster in the constellation Puppis. At magnitude 4.4 it is visual to the naked eye. See where to look below.

M47

The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color (OSC)) on a TEC 140 telescope from the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3). 12 two-minute sub frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = 24 minute photo. Processed in Photoshop (CS5). Unguided, no calibration frames.

It was clouding up.

Location of M47:

Source: Astrometry.net

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