Legacy Lens from the 1970th meets my new workflow in 2024. The reprocessed version of the Orion region.
Category: Open Cluster
Melotte 41 – M35
Messier 35 is a large open star cluster located in the constellation Gemini, approximately 2,800 light-years away from Earth, reaching its annual culmination at astronomical midnight around end-December.
My 2024 reprocessed astrophoto of the open clusters Messier 35 and NGC 2158. I collected the data in early 2022.
Melotte 236 – M39
Messier 39 is a large open star cluster located in the constellation Cygnus, approximately 800 light-years away from Earth. This celestial object reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight mid of August.
Specifically around August 13th.
Beehive Cluster – Melotte 88 – M44
The open star cluster Messier 44 in the constellation of Cancer reaches its annual culmination around January 28th.
Pleiades – Melotte 22 – M45
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus, approximately 410 light-years from Earth, reaching its annual culmination at astronomical midnight at the end of November.
Messier 39 – Reprocessed version (december 2023) based on data from october 2021.
My 2023 reprocessed version. The Beehive Cluster or Praesepe. Marry Christmas to all who celebrate it.
2023 reprocessed picture of Caldwell 49, the Rosette Nebula, based on the data from 2021.
Reprocessing is worth it. I like the new result.