NGC 6229 (GCL 47, H 50.4) Globular Cluster in Hercules
Located at: RA 16 hours 46 minutes 59 seconds, Dec +47 degrees 31 minutes 40 seconds
Size: 4.5'; Magnitude: 9.4; Class: 4
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 180 minutes (18 x 10 minute subs), 06/24/25/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 6229 NGC 6229 16 46 58.8 +47 31 40 V = 9.4; Size 4.2 17.5": bright, fairly small, very bright core, faint mottled halo. Roughly 10 extremely faint mag 15-16 stars are resolved around the edges of the halo at 280x. Forms an equilateral triangle with two mag 8 stars 6' W and 6' SW. - by Steve Gottlieb |