- Description: Open Cluster Messier 46 up close! M46 contains about 100 stars and fills
this field at 27 arc minutes across. A fairly easy binocular object shining at magnitude 6.1. M47
is in the same binocular field. There is also a planetary nebula in the field, 10th magnitude
NGC2438 located at about 7 o'clock in this photo.
- Film: Kodak Ektachrome 400 in a dry-ice camera
- Scope: 8" Meade 2080, original model. (2000mm f10)
- Exposure: 30 Minutes
- Guiding: Manual
- Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Alberta
- Date: January 23, 1988
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