M 92 (NGC 6341) Globular Cluster in Hercules
Located at: RA 17 hours 17 minutes 07 seconds, Dec +43 degrees 08 minutes 11 seconds
Size: 14'; Magnitude: 6.5; Class: 4
North is up

West to the right
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Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
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Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
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Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 340 minutes (34 x 10 minute subs), 07/15/19/20/2007 |
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Processing: |
CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
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Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
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Notes: |
This image replaces a 200 minute red-filtered sequence from August 2006. From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 6341 NGC 6341 = M92 17 17 07.2 +43 08 11 V = 6.5; Size 11.2 17.5": very bright, large, very high resolution of 150-200 stars many in curving lanes. A tight knot of stars in the core is resolved. 13": highly resolution over entire disc, dozens of stars resolved in bright core. A bright knot in the core is partially resolved. 8": very bright, moderately large. Well resolved into many long streamers from the small bright nucleus and some core resolution. - by Steve Gottlieb |