Messier 46

Astrophotography · Stars and systems

Messier 46

Captured and Processed by Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal

The object · NGC 2437

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Astrophotographic information

Photographer
Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal
Observing location
Bandarban, Lama (21.740447,92.168846)
Exposure
60 min.
Telescope
Unistellar eQuinox 1 (Ashvin 1), 114 / 450 mm
Camera
Sony IMX224, 1.27 Mpx
Field of view
0.61° × 0.46° (1.72 arcsec)
Image processing
Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal
Processing method
1. Stack 2. Background extraction 3. Plate solve 4. SPCC 5. Star removal 5. Stretching 7. Star re-composition 8. Denoising 9. Sharpening 10. HDR processing for galaxy core. 11. Masked stretching.

Astrophysical information

Object type
Star Cluster
Constellation
Puppis, the Stern
Distance
5.4 Kly
Angular size
27 arcmin
Physical size
30 ly
Apparent magnitude
6.1

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