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      M55
      Wallpaper author:
      Dan Crowson

      29 Jun 2023

      M55

      M55 (NGC 6809 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class IV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 16,300 light-years away in Sagittarius.

      Luminance – 14x300s – 70 minutes – binned 1x1

      Luminance – 4x600s – 40 minutes – binned 1x1

      RGB – 16:14:15x300s – 80:70:75 minutes – binned 1x1

      RGB – 4x600s – 40 minutes each – binned 1x1

      455 minutes total exposure – 7 hours 35 minutes

      Imaged over eleven nights from March through September, 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/53008663132/sizes/l/

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


      Dataset from which the image was processed

      M55

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