Observation by Graham Winstanley: Moon and Beehive

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Graham Winstanley

Observer

Graham Winstanley

Observed

2019 Apr 13 - 19:38

Uploaded

2019 Apr 14 - 20:19

Objects

The Moon
Conjunction

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Constellation

Cancer

Field centre

RA: 08^h40^m
Dec: +19°41'
Position angle: +85°19'

Field size

2°06' × 1°24'

Equipment

Skywatcher ED80
NEQ6
Canon 1100D

Exposure

1s at ISO 400

Location

Bassingham, Lincolnshire

Target name

Moon and Beehive

Title

Moon and Beehive

About this image

Arrived home from The Astronomer meeting in Basingstoke in time to catch the latter part of this event. Took several frames but most of them in RAW - mistake! The processing is not straight forward.

From Paul Abel's challenge notes; HIP 42542, mag 6.8 is seen just above the Moon a couple of minutes before it was occulted.

North is to the right.

Files associated with this observation

M44 MOON.jpg (984.0 kB)

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