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      NGC 6723
      Wallpaper author:
      Dan Crowson

      25 May 2024

      NGC 6723

      NGC 6723 is a Shapley-Sawyer class VII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 28,400 light-years away in Sagittarius.

      Luminance – 19x300s – 95 minutes – binned 1x1

      Luminance – 7x600s – 70 minutes – binned 1x1

      RGB – 18:16:18x300s – 90:80:90 minutes each – binned 1x1

      RGB – 7:6:6x600s – 70:60:60 minutes each – binned 1x1

      615 minutes total exposure – 10 hours 15 minutes

      Imaged over thirteen nights in from March to October, 2021 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/53744505658/sizes/l/

      This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”


      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 6723

      8 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Globular Cluster
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 284.8881 Dec -36.6322
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        13 Mar 2021 - 04 Oct 2021
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance3222h25m27
      Red3002h15m27
      Green2772h26
      Blue3002h10m26

      NGC 6723