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Old 13-10-2015, 04:28 AM
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NGC 6553 - Globular Cluster & Gravitational Lensing

Constelation of Sagitarius, distant from 19,000 light years. ESO discovered a microlensing by a black hole with a mass twice of the Sun. Maybe it lies inside the cluster. It brings out an amplified image of a red giant star of the background object.

I didn't understand who the ESO's arrow is pointing exactly: the stars near its tip or the red star near and on its direction.

http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1540a/
http://www.eso.org/public/archives/r.../potw1540a.pdf

GSO 305 mm - Canon T3 - 24 x 2 min (48 min) - OAG - Skyglow filter - Coma corrector

http://www.astrobin.com/218916/

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http://jsmastronomy.30143.n7.nabble....ter-td480.html
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