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Faiz Ahmad
Ashburn, Virginia
05/09/2019
10:52 pm

Equipment Details:

Celestron HDEdge 8 telescope and Sony mirror less camera.

Post-processing Details:

Adjust clarity to the image.

Image Details:

The Beehive Cluster, is an open cluster in the constellation Cancer. It is one of the nearest open clusters to Earth, containing a larger population of stars than other nearby bright open clusters. Under dark skies, the Beehive Cluster looks like a small nebulous object to the naked eye.

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