M 7 - Ptolemy Cluster --Full Moon (Sigga)

M 7 - Ptolemy Cluster --Full Moon

Messier 7 or M7, also designated NGC 6475 and sometimes known as the Ptolemy Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Scorpius. The cluster is easily detectable with the naked eye, close to the "stinger" of Scorpius (also called Scorpio). With a declination of -34.8°, it is the southernmost Messier object.

M7 has been known since antiquity; it was first recorded by the 2nd-century Greek-Roman astronomer Ptolemy, who described it as a nebula in 130 AD.[6] Italian astronomer Giovanni Batista Hodierna observed it before 1654 and counted 30 stars in it. In 1764, French astronomer Charles Messier catalogued the cluster as the seventh member in his list of comet-like objects. English astronomer John Herschel described it as "coarsely scattered clusters of stars".

Telescopic observations of the cluster reveal about 80 stars within a field of view of 1.3° across. At the cluster's estimated distance of 980 light years this corresponds to an actual diameter of 25 light years. The tidal radius of the cluster is 40.1 ly (12.3 pc) and it has a combined mass of about 735 times the mass of the Sun. The age of the cluster is around 200 million years while the brightest member star is of magnitude 5.6. In terms of composition, the cluster contains a similar abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium as the Sun.

--Wikipedia

This is latest experiment in LRGB processing and taken with moon almost full. I chose M7 for experiment as was farthest away from the moon in angular distance. One 600 second exposure in each of RGB and once 300 second exposure in L. I make some bad processing errors plus forget to save some files so this took a long time as had to start over, but all in all pleased with result.

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RA (center)	17h53m57s.91
RA (top/left)	18h03m34s.70
RA (top/right)	17h44m37s.68
RA (bottom/right)	17h43m52s.95
RA (bottom/left)	18h03m45s.85

Dec (center)	-34°45′02″.3
Dec (top/left)	-32°45′47″.5
Dec (top/right)	-32°42′26″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	-36°41′17″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	-36°44′47″.3

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