M67, Cancer
M67 is one of the oldest Open clusters known and is thought to be 10billion yrs old. M67 is peculiar in that its well above the galactic plane  Most open clusters are within the plane of the milky way..  It has a population of stars similare to Globular clusters with an abundance of red giants.  Over 500 stars are known to belong to the cluster.  M67's distance is roughly 2500 light years.


Image Details

Optics      Stellarvue SV78S f6.15
Mount              LX200 fork mount
Camera
 Starlight Xpress SXV-H9
Filter
 Astronomik Type 2C
Date
 18 March 04
Location  
 My Backyard Observatory in Ocean Springs, MS, Limiting 4.5   
Exposure
 LRGB 30:5:5:5  RGB binned 1x1
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