Basic object information

Name: M 44
Popular name: Beehive
Type of object: Open cluster
Magnitude: 3.1
Size: 95.0'

Position (epoch of date)

Right ascension: 8h 40m 8s
Declination: +19° 39' 43"
Constellation: Cancer

Local information

Altitude: -19° 59' 33"
Azimuth: 322° 58' 56"

Rise: 17h 16m 54s  
Transit: 0h 36m 32s
Set: 7h 52m 13s  

Star atlas chart numbers:

Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas, Chart C-32
Millennium Star Atlas, Charts 713-714 (Vol II)
Sky Atlas 2000.0, Chart 12
Uranometria 2000 Chart 141, Vol 1


Revised NGC/IC Catalog Data

Wolfgang Steinicke, Feb 2001

Names and designations

M 44
NGC 2632
OCL 507

Type of object: Open cluster

Catalog position for epoch J2000.0

Right ascension:	08h 39m 57.2s
Declination:		+19° 40' 21"


Object information

Magnitude: 3.1
Size: 95.0'

Object classification: II2m    
Remarks: Praesepe, Beehive cl.

Saguaro Astronomy Club v7.2 Catalog Data

Saguaro Astronomy Club, August 2000

Names and designations

M 44
NGC 2632

Type of object: Open cluster

Catalog position for epoch J2000.0

Right ascension:	08h 40m 00.0s
Declination:		+19° 40' 00"

Constellation: Cancer

Object information

Magnitude: 3.1
Size: 95.0'
Number of stars: 50
Magnitude of brightest star: 6.3

Object classification: II 2 m
Description: !!Praesepe
Notes: Beehive;200 memb to 14 mag