This is the Omicron Velorum cluster in Vela, catalogued as IC 2391, a bright naked-eye star cluster, though rather sparse when viewed through a telesc

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This is the Omicron Velorum cluster in Vela, catalogued as IC 2391, a bright naked-eye star cluster, though rather sparse when viewed through a telescope even at low power. The bright star at bottom is Delta Velorum, the eastern star of rhe False Cross. The dim star cluster to the left of IC 2391 is NGC 2669. The field is immersed in faint nebulosity from the large Gum Nebula in Puppis and Vela. This is a stack of 8 x 5 minute exposures with the Sharpstar 61mm EDOH III refractor at and the filter-modified (by ) Canon R at ISO 800. No filter was employed here. On the AP 400 mount autoguided with the MGEN3 stand-alone guider. Taken from near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, in March 2024.

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