A small telescope reveals the cluster’s distinctive heart-shaped figure. M50 is composed of many young, hot, luminous blue stars. It also contains several yellow giants and a red M-class giant, which is positioned 7 arc minutes south of the cluster’s centre.
Annotated: http://nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/4979310
Sony A6000
William Optics RedCat 51 Petzval APO
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Star Adventurer Tripod
Singapore, Bortle 8
ISO800
Light Frames - 100 x 30secs (manually dithered in RA and DEC)
Dark Frames - 30 x 30secs
Flat Frames - 35
Bias Frames - 50
Deep Sky Stacker
StarTools - 50% bin, Autodev, Crop, Wipe, Super Structure, Color, Super Structure, Denoise
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