Object: NGC 6752
NGC 6752 is the third brightest globular cluster in the night sky, being bested only by Omega Centauri and 47 Tucana. At a visual magnitude of 5.4 it is visible to the naked eye from a dark sky site. It ís roughly 13,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the southern constellation Pavo (The Peacock) and contains well over 100,000 stars within its 100 light-year diameter. Bright red giant stars which dominate this cluster can be seen in the above image.
- Team: Dave Jurasevich and Howard Hedlund
- Filters: Tru-Balance LRGB filter set Gen 2
- Exposure: L 10 ea x 300 sec 1x1 bin; RGB 7 ea x 300 sec 1x1 bin
- Date: June 2015
- Software: CCDStack 2, Photoshop CS5