M50

Open cluster

Constellation- Monoceros

Right Ascension: 7h 3m 12s

Declination: -08° 20' 00"

Distance: 3200 light years

Visual Brightness: 5.9 mag

Apparent Dimension: 16 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- February 7, 2006

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -25C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- RGB 8 x 400 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in AstroArt 2.0