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Old 05-09-2015, 10:25 AM
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A lazy NGC6752 from the dining room window

Nice and clear last night. Took some more images out the window. This is globular cluster NGC6752. There are two cute little little galaxies in the field right at the edge of the frame. IC4819 is edge on and IC4830 is more face on. Can't find a lot of info on these two.

From Wiki... "NGC 6752 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pavo. It is the third brightest in the sky, after 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, and is best seen from June to October. The cluster lies around 13,000 light years distant and is one of the closer globular clusters to Earth. It also lies 17,000 light years away from the galactic centre. It holds over 100 thousand stars in a sphere about 100 light-years in diameter and has been calculated to be 11.78 billion years old."

Bintel 8" F4 Newtonian, Baader MPCC MKIII, Heq5 pro unguided, 98 x 30 seconds, Pentax K-5.

Full frame at Astrobin. ---> http://astrob.in/208323/0/
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