Wallpaper author:
Zoltán Belső
18 Mar 2022
NGC104 - 47 Tucanae
NGC104 is the second brightest globular cluster in the sky. It is visible to naked eye at magnitude 4, but it is only visible from the southern sky in the constallation Tucana, so it is not in Messier catalog. It is at a distance of 13400 light year spreading acros 120 lyght years.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 104
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Globular Cluster
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 6.02083 Dec -72.08139
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................18 Oct 2020 - 18 Oct 2020
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | 180 | 21m | 7 |
| Green | 154 | 18m | 7 |
| Blue | 210 | 21m | 6 |