THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER MESSIER 107

Posted by MENEZES FO
on Thursday, September 9, 2021
Discovered in 1782 by Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and colleague of Charles Messier, M107 was the last Messier object to be found, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, it lies close to the galactic plane at a distance of 20,000 light-years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 6171 in the New General Catalog.
The globular cluster apparently presents more obscured regions, unusual for such astronomical objects, it is densely concentrated in a volume that is only about 20x the distance between our Sun and its closest stellar neighbor.

Best details:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/4ym1o9/0/

EQUIPMENTS:
ZWO ASI 6200MC PRO COLED
Espirit 150mm
45 x 100sec
Date: 08/06/2021

Location: Jales-SP-Brazil
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
E-mail: Barretosmed@hotmail.com
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