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This is the first official
color image with our new CCD camera, the Atik 16200. There is
some overlap here, but essentially this is two frames side by
side. The Baader MPCC did a great job at keeping the stars sharp
to the corners even with this larger APS-H chip which is 35mm
diagonal.
M47 an open cluster
is on the right and is a loose collection of mostly blue super
giants. On the left we see M46 and the planetary nebula NGC2438
which lies some distance in front of this cluster in space. Between
this planetary nebula and the top of the field you can see a
small red disk - That is Minkowski 1-18 which is around 15.5
magnitude. And finally, halfway between the two clusters and
close to the bottom is the dim cluster NGC2425 which is dominated
by yellow super giants with a few blue ones mixed in. Other than
those objects, there are a few background galaxies around magnitude
18.
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