NGC 6760

GLOBULAR CLUSTER IN AQUILA

(Image centered at ra 19:11.2 / dec +01:02)

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 September 2020 - Home Backyard in Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

DATA

TYPE: Globular Cluster

APPARENT MAGNITUDE: 9,1

APPARENT DIAMETER: 9,6 arc minutes

DISTANCE: Roughly 24100 light years

IMAGE INFORMATION

SCOPE: ORION OPTICS UK 8" f5 Newtonian w/Skywatcher Coma Corrector working at f4,5

CAMERA: QSI 583 WS

MOUNT: SKY WATCHER NEQ6

FILTERS: Baader LRGB Set

SKY CONDITIONS: Urban Skies

EXPOSURES: LRGB (30,30,30,30) all bin 1x1 

OBJECT DESCRIPTION AND IMAGE SESSION

Discovered by british astronomer John Russell Hind in March the 30th 1845. John Herschel included the object in his General Catalogue as GC 4473 and became NGC 6760 in J.L.E. Dreyer's catalogue. The cluster is about 12 degrees west from Aquila and 15600 lights years away from the galactic center. It is a class IX Shapley Sawyer Concentration Cluster, therefore a bit loosed towards the center. It is located in a dense dusty stellar field LDN 627, which some how was mitigated in the image due to thin clouds during the whole session.