Wallpaper author:
Jan Scheers
16 Oct 2021
47 Tucanae (NGC 104)
LRGB-image of 47 Tucanae (or 47 Tuc , NGC 104) , a globular cluster located in the Southern constellation Tucana. It is about 13,000 ly away from Earth, and 120 light years in diameter.
47 Tucanae is the second brightest globular cluster after Omega Centauri.
This LRGB-image was captured with the CHI-1.
Total integration time: 140 minutes
LRGB 8:6:8:6 subs of 300s with each filter.
Dataset Scotty Bishop.
Dataset from which the image was processed
47 Tucanae
5 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Globular Cluster
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 6.0223 Dec -72.0814
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................08 Sept 2019 - 23 Dec 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 86 | 1h10m | 49 |
| Luminance | 55 | 45m | 49 |
| Red | 72 | 59m | 49 |
| Green | 84 | 1h9m | 49 |
| Halpha | 12 | 10m | 49 |