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Messier 44: Amateur vs Hubble Image
Messier 44, better known as the "Beehive Cluster," is an open cluster of stars located some 600 light-years away in the constellation Cancer, the Crab. The amateur image was taken with an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope using a 0.63 focal reducer and a DSLR Camera. The center image was taken by the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), while the Hubble image was captured by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Image Credit: Amateur image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Ground-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble image: NASA, ESA and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule) and DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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Image CreditAmateur image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Ground-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble image: NASA, ESA and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule) and DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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