M5 is a globular cluster discovered by Gottfried Kirch and Maria Margarethe Kirch in 1702. It’s located in constellation Serpens and it’s 24500 light-years far from the Solar System. This globular cluster has diameter 165 light-years and contains more than 100 000 stars, which makes it one of the biggest globular cluster in our Milky Way galaxy.
| Telescope: | Newton 254/1000 mm |
| Aperture: | 254 mm |
| Focal length: | 1000 mm |
| Mount | Gemini G53f |
| Autoguiding | Orion Mini Autoguider |
| Camera: | Moravian instruments G2 8300M @-40C |
| Corrector: | GPU |
| Filters: | Baader LRGB |
| Exposure: | 24xL, 180 s, bin 1x1, 8xRGB 120 s, bin 2x2 |
| Date: | 2016-06-29 |
[…] spectacular deep space object simply deserves more attention, than I was able to spend last year. At that time I used the same telescope, but now I have different coma corrector and the camera. Moreover, this […]