M44 image shown above was taken without any filters with Cookbook 245 LDC CCD camera attached to 135mm f4 lens on Feb.14, 1999 from Sooke, BC. Ten exposures (30 sec. each) were processed with AIP4WIN.
M44, the Beehive Cluster. New observations suggest that this may be two separate clusters, which are colliding with one another.
M44 Praesepe, The Beehive Cluster
Description: open cluster
Constellation: Cancer
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M44 Praesepe, The Beehive Cluster (open cluster)
M67 (open cluster)
This is one of the 13 constellations of the Zodiac.
M44 Beehive Cluster (Meditation Music)
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M44 (NGC2632) is a bright open cluster clearly visible to the naked eye on a dark enough sky. The cluster is well-known as "The Praesepe", meaning of a crib, and also called "The Beehive Cluster" in English.
M44 (NGC 2632, Praesepe)
M45 (Pleiades)
M50 (NGC 2323)
M51 (NGC 5194, Whirlpool Galaxy)
M57 (NGC 6720, Ring Nebula)
M63 (NGC 5055, Sunflower Galaxy)
M64 (NGC 4826, Black Eye Galaxy)
M74 (NGC 628, spiral galaxy)
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Also known as Messier 44, M44, NGC 2632 or Cr 189, the Beehive Cluster is located right in the centre of the Cancer constellation. It is an open star cluster, one of the nearest ones to our solar system.
Located in the constellation of Cancer is an impressive galactic cluster of stars known as M44. This famous cluster is also known as Praesepe, and more recently, the Beehive Cluster.
The open star cluster M44, also called Praesepe or Beehive Cluster, is a swarm of stars of 6th mag and fainter. Without optical help is appears as a misty patch. Because it considerably large its best viewed with binoculars.
=manger], open star cluster in the constellation Cancer; cataloged as M44 or NGC 2632. It was first recorded by Hipparchus (c.150 B.C.). The cluster is often called the Beehive because of its shape.
The planet starts to month in Cancer on the edge of the Praesepe (Beehive) star cluster, M44. Over the following two mornings it will cross the cluster. Mars will be near the centre of Praesepe on the morning of the second.
Orion Arm: The Orion Nebula M42 is located in our Arm. Celestial Objects 1000 LY to 100 LY from the Sun: M39, M44, M45. Celestial Objects 100 LY to 16LY From the Sun. Celestial Objects less than 16 LY from the Sun: List of nearest stars ...
Known also as Praesepe (Latin for manger), it's Messier No. is M44. When observing it, look for the eclipsing binary star TX Cancri. Epsilon Cancri is also an eye catcher and worth spending some time to find.
At the center of the crab's shell is a huge open cluster, the Beehive cluster, also known as Praesepe (M44). The open cluster M67 is nearby. The brightest star in Cancer is Acubens (meaning claw); the second-brightest is Al Tarf (meaning tip).
Cancer is best noted among stargazers as the home of Praesepe (M44), an open cluster also called the Beehive Cluster or the Gate of Men, which contains the star ε Cancri. The smaller, denser open cluster M67 can be found here as well.
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A naked-eye open cluster in Cancer, about 160 pc distant. (Beehive Cluster) (M44, NGC 2632)
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Look for the constellation just to the west of Leo. Within Cancer can be found M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, or the Praesepe. This is an open cluster of stars, that under a dark sky looks like a small, fuzzy cloud.
 See also: Cluster, Beehive, Constellation, Star, Open
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