Praesepe
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(prs´p) [Lat.,=manger], open star cluster in the constellation Cancer; cataloged as M44 or NGC 2632. It was first recorded by Hipparchus (c.150 B.C.).
Praesepe
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Praesepe
A naked-eye open cluster in Cancer, about 160 pc distant. (Beehive Cluster) (M44, NGC 2632)
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Praesepe is at a distance of 500 light years from the Earth. With the naked eye it looks like a hazy patch, but even a small pair of binoculars resolves it into hundreds of stars.
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.
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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)
M76 (NGC 650, Little Dumbbell Nebula) ...
Almost due north of the Beehive Cluster (the Praesepe) and the four-star box that makes the "Manger" of Cancer (the Crab), lies Cancer's second brightest star, rather oddly given Greek letter "Iota, ...
Along with the Orion Nebula and the Praesepe cluster, Messier's inclusion of the Pleiades has been noted as curious, as most of Messier's objects were much fainter and more easily confused with comets— ...
Praesepe, or the Beehive Cluster, is a very popular feature among astronomers. Also known as Messier 44, M44, NGC 2632 or Cr 189, the Beehive Cluster is located right in the centre of the Cancer constellation.
The " beehive cluster " Praesepe in Cancer is an example of an easily resolved cluster composed of fairly bright stars.
From a dark country site on a moonless night, you can still see the Praesepe with the unaided eye. It's the smudge of light to the immediate right of Jupiter from now till the end of May.
This famous cluster is also known as Praesepe, and more recently, the Beehive Cluster. The Beehive was given this name because to some it resembles a swarm of bees.
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.
Justo al lado de la cabeza se encuentra un racimo llamado Praesepe, o la Colmena. A simple vista parece una nube borrosa. Algunas civilizaciones pensaban que era una apertura por la que las almas descendían desde el cielo.
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.
8 light-years (ly) from our Sun, Sol, just north of the center (08:29:48+26:46.7, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Cancer, the Crab -- northwest of the famous open star cluster M 44 (also known as the Beehive Cluster and Praesepe, Latin for "Manger") ...
The cluster is well-known as "The Praesepe", meaning of a crib, and also called "The Beehive Cluster" in English. It's best appreciated with binoculars or small scope, its 1.
Ptolemy described Phatne as ‘the nebulous mass in the chest'. Astronomers now know this star cluster by its Latin name Praesepe, but it is popularly termed the Beehive (praesepe can mean both ‘manger' and ‘hive').
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.
Info: Cancer is one of the 13 zodiacal constellations (that is, the Sun passes through it in the course of the year). This constellation contains the star cluster Praesepe (arab: Meleph)
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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).
In the Large Magellanic Cloud, both Hodge 301 and R136 are forming from the gases of the Tarantula Nebula, while in our own galaxy, tracing back the motion through space of the Hyades and Praesepe, two prominent nearby open clusters, ...
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.
The most obvious feature in the image above is the large open cluster Messier 44, also known as Praesepe, which appears to the unaided eye as a fuzzy patch.
 See also: Cluster, Constellation, Star, Beehive, Cancer
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