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      Palomar 7
      Wallpaper author:
      Dan Crowson

      20 Sept 2024

      Palomar 7

      Palomar 7 (IC 1276 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class XII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 17,600 light-years away in Serpens Cauda.

      Luminance – 10x180s – 30 minutes – binned 2x2

      RGB – 10x180s – 30 minutes each – binned 2x2

      120 minutes total exposure – 2 hours

      Imaged August 9th and 25th, 2024 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a QHY 600M on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

      LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/54008688802/sizes/l/

      These are Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-Click Observations.”

      See my refractor image here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52230075991.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      Palomar 7

      2 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CMOS
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Globular Cluster
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        QHY 600M
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 272.6844 Dec -7.2076
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        30 Jul 2024 - 25 Aug 2024
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance7322m18
      Red16048m18
      Green16948m17
      Blue16948m17

      Palomar 7