NGC 6229 – Globular cluster in Hercules

on Sunday, November 27, 2016

Here is a very distant globular cluster called NGC 6229 found in the constellation Hercules, it is about 100,000 light years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 9.39. What a difference distant makes when you compare this globular cluster with the spectacular Hercules cluster (25,000 light years away) which is found in the same constellation.
Tech Specs: This image is composed of 32 x 15 second images at ISO 3200 with 5 x 15 second darks and 5 x 1/4000 second bias frames using a Meade LX90 12” telescope and Canon 6D camera mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount. Imaging was done on October 5, 2016 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.

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