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Old 21-08-2017, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
6752 is probably the most photogenic of the globs. Nicely done. But hey, its not done with an FSQ?? whatttt?

Correct colour of stars in globs has been a topic recently on this site. Globs are older stars and typically dominated with sunlike yellow old stars. I wonder if it should show more yellow stars or is the colour correct (not a criticism more of a question).

Greg.
I agree with Greg, it should be yellower. Gratton (2003) calculated it as been 13.4 billion years old, a paper in 1996 had it at 13.5-14.6 and Wikipedia says 11.5.

A study from Swinburne in 2010 using HST data:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4289.pdf

11.78 billion years old. Off the top of my head should have the average star mass at 0.9 solar masses.

Very nicely resolved however!
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