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      NGC 2808
      Wallpaper author:
      Dan Crowson

      24 May 2026

      NGC 2808

      NGC 2808 (Melotte 95 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 32,000 light-years away in Carina.


      Luminance – 10x600s – 100 minutes – binned 1x1

      Luminance – 2x300s – 10 minutes – binned 1x1

      RGB – 10:11:11x600s – 100:110:110 minutes each – binned 1x1

      RGB – 2x300s – 10 minutes each – binned 1x1


      460 minutes total exposure – 7 hours 40 minutes


      Imaged March 16th, April 12th and May 17th, 2021 and March 4th, 5th and 6th, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.


      LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/55291421515/sizes/l

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 2808

      5 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Globular Cluster
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 138.0129 Dec -64.8635
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        17 Mar 2021 - 07 Mar 2022
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      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance5542h13
      Red5542h13
      Green6502h10m12
      Blue6502h10m12

      NGC 2808