Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  M 5  ·  NGC 5904  ·  The star 5Ser
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M5 (NGC5904) - Globular Cluster, Richard Bratt
M5 (NGC5904) - Globular Cluster
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M5 (NGC5904) - Globular Cluster

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M5 (NGC5904) - Globular Cluster, Richard Bratt
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M5 (NGC5904) - Globular Cluster

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Taken from my back yard with an ES102ED f/7, images with a QHY23 in LRGB. Guiding was not good resulting in the rejection of over 100 frames :<

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Spanning 165 light-years in diameter, M5 is one of the largest known globular clusters. The gravitational sphere of influence of M5, (i.e. the volume of space in which stars are gravitationally bound to it rather than being torn away by the Milky Way's gravitational pull) has a radius of some 200 light-years.

At 13 billion years old, M5 is also one of the eldest globular clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Its distance is about 24,500 light-years from Earth, and it contains more than 100,000 stars, as many as 500,000 according to some estimates.

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M5 (NGC5904) - Globular Cluster, Richard Bratt

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