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Messier 67 - Open cluster in Cancer
Sometimes called King Cobra or Golden Eye Cluster.  Distance 2600-2900 light-years.  Estimated age 3.2 to 5 billion years.

Messier 67 - Open cluster in Cancer

Sometimes called King Cobra or Golden Eye Cluster. Distance 2600-2900 light-years. Estimated age 3.2 to 5 billion years.




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Filename:M67_20250324_FLT132_ASI1600_LRGB_v1.JPG
Album name:27telp / Star Clusters
Location and Date:Sybaris Observatory, OCA Observation Site near Anza, California, 3/24/2025
Equipment:William Optics FLT-132 scope, ZWO ASI2600MM CMOS camera, AstroPhysics 1200GTO mount, Borg Mini-50 guidescope, Starlight Xpress Ultrastar guide camera
Settings:Luminance, Red, Green and Blue filters - 10 exposures @ 5 minutes each, bin1x1
Notes:Software: Capture, Sequence Generator Pro; guiding - PHD2; processing - PixInsight 1.9.3, Adobe Lightroom
Filesize:1681 KiB
Date added:Jul 10, 2025
Dimensions:2267 x 1690 pixels
Displayed:201 times
Color Space:sRGB
EXIF Offset:366
EXIF Version:version 2.31
Image Description:Sometimes called King Cobra or Golden Eye Cluster. Distance 2600-2900 light-years. Estimated age 3.2 to 5 billion years.
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Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.2 (Windows)
X Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
IPTC Title:Messier 67 - Open cluster in Cancer
IPTC Copyright:J. L. Floyd © 2025
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