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.

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NGC 2808

Wallpaper author:

Dan Crowson

24 May 2026

NGC 2808

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

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