M14

Posted by dcrowson
on Saturday, May 2, 2020
M14 (NGC 6402 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class VIII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 30,300 light-years away in Ophiuchus.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged April 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2020 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/49847015072/sizes/l/
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