37 is the magic number

Folks - the final repost of a reprocessed image - if that makes sense... I've two more unposted images in progress. Enjoy!

Cheers

Dave McD

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Perhaps discovered by Hodierna before 1654. Discovered by William Herschel in 1784.

At its distance of about 3600 light-years, open cluster NGC 2169 appears under a diameter of about 7 arc minutes and a total brightness of 5.9 magnitudes. The brightest of its about 30 stars is of magnitude 6.94, the hottest of spectral type B1, indicating an age of about 50 million light-years. It is involved in diffuse nebulosity, the nebula cataloged as Ced 78. It is receding from us at 16 km/s

NGC 2169

Hey Dave, mad thought here... just looking at some of the tech details and you have this:

- Date/Time (UTC) 27 November 2005, 00:30
- Exposure details 39 images * 60 seconds

How about another image taken this summer with the following:

- Date/Time (UTC) 3 July 2006, 00:37
- Exposure details 37 images * 37 seconds

I'll get me coat...

Great pic btw.

:lol:

John - the penny just dropped! Surely the year should be 2037 though?

Thanks for the comment!

Cheers

Dave McD

Even better Dave, It is now definitely one of MY favourire star clusters, it has a bit of character!

Keith..

Great image Dave, thats another one on my list of objects to have a look at, all we need is a good clear night.