The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...) (Wes Smith)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: NGC 2516

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...), Wes Smith

Powered byPixInsight

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...)

Revision title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

Powered byPixInsight

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...)

Revision title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

Ever since I star pushed my 10" ATm Dob using a 32 mm gun finder scope to this Lovely open cluster I have always seen a Running Man with the 2 brightest Yellow giants denoteing his feet.
At Mag 3.79 ,on Autumn nights it is sits naked eye separated and distinct below the Southern Milky Way which streaks from horizon to horizon .This cluster sits at 1300 light years distant and is about 400 light years in diamenter consisting of 400 stella members.

Original
Final
B

B

Title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

Description: This bright cluster itself is easily visible with the naked eye as a hazy patch off the side of the Milky way in a much less Star dense area, but is resolvable into stars using binoculars. It contains two 5th magnitude red giant stars and three main visual double stars: HJ 4027, HJ 4031 and I 29. A small telescope would be required to split the double stars, which are all pairs of 8-9 magnitude and 1-10 arcseconds separation.
To me it looks like a man running when viewed through the 20" F5 "Zamar" and a 31mm Nagler EP.
This revision due to the back ground being to dark on the original. A favourite stop in a Southern Milky way tour.
Awe and Wonder folks !

Uploaded: ...

Australian Astrophotographers
Objects of the South - negative declination only
SharpCap Users

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape
Artificial satellite

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

AstroBin

AstroBin

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...)

Revision title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...)

Revision title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

AstroBin

AstroBin

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...)

Revision title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

The Southern Beehive NGC2516 ( or the Running Man...)

Revision title: NGC2516 The Southern Beehive Cluster

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

Delete this revision?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Error

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information