Thank you for sharing your photos - this is exactly what this project is all about! :-)
M44, the Beehive Cluster in the constellation Cancer. This has been my favorite open star cluster since childhood, from reading F. Ziegel's book "Treasures of the Starry Sky." In the spring, when I was a schoolboy, I loved observing it through my "Tourist-4" spyglass :)
The cluster is about 700 million years old, making it relatively young, and is located approximately 600 light-years away. Interestingly, more than half of the stars in the cluster are orange or red M-class stars, but the bright blue giants catch the eye.
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