Coal Car Cluster

AKA NGC 1981, is an open cluster which is located in the constellation Orion. It is just above (above as in north of) the Running Man Nebula. A busy part of the sky. At magnitude 4.2 it is visible to the naked eye.

It looks like Sagittarius to me, but that is not as alliterative.

North (toward Polaris) is up in the photo. The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color camera) on a TEC 140 telescope (refractor) in the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3).

Six 20 second sub-frames were used and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = two minute photo. Binned 2X2. Unguided, no darks or flats. Processed in Photoshop (CS5).

Location in the night sky of the photo:

Source: Astrometry.net

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