Messier 93

M93 (NGC 2447) is an open cluster also in Puppis. At magnitude 6.0 it is barely visible to the naked eye in dark skies. See below on where to look.

M93

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.

Taken through moonlit thin clouds.

Location of M93:

Source: Astrometry.net

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