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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.”


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      NGC 6723

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