NGC 3201 - A Closer View

Posted by dcrowson
on Monday, July 4, 2022
NGC 3201 (Caldwell 79) is a Shapley-Sawyer class X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentration_Class) globular cluster located approximately 16,308 light-years away in Vela.

Luminance – 20x600s – 200 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 20x600s – 200 minutes each – binned 1x1

800 minutes total exposure – 13 hours 20 minutes

Imaged over 12 nights in March, April and June, 2021 and February, March, April and May, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52193849023/sizes/l/

I also captured this one with my refractor several years ago from New Mexico - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/32588266371.

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