| Globular Clusters Galore LAAstro.com by Bill Patterson |
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| Date Taken: March 19 - 21, 2004 Location: Pine Mountain Club, CA Equipment: Takahashi FS152 telescope & SBIG ST10XME CCD camera Notes: A three day weekend ,a new moon and a great chance to break in the new scope. All images are RGB combinations of 4 minute subexposures (unbinned). I used a Takahashi TOA focal reducer (f5.7) for the first time. It yields a fast system and a image scale of 1.6 arc seconds per pixel. The Tak EM200 handled the large scope well. I got these GC images and a few galaxies as well. It was lots of fun and I'm starting to like this scope! |
| M4 - Globular Cluster in Scorpius Magnitude 5.9 Size - 26.3' RGB = 12/12/16 minutes |
| M5- Globular Cluster in Serpens Magnitude 5.8 Size - 17.4' RGB = 28/28/28 minutes |
| M13- Globular Cluster in Hercules Magnitude 5.9 Size - 16.6' RGB = 32/32/32 minutes |
| M56- Globular Cluster in Lyra Magnitude 8.3 Size - 7.1' RGB = 28/28/28 minutes |
| M92- Globular Cluster in Hercules Magnitude 6.5 Size - 11.2' RGB = 28/28/28 minutes |
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