Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  IC 4645  ·  M 92  ·  NGC 6341
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M92, Kurt Zeppetello
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Messier 92 (M92) is a wonderful globular cluster of approximately 330,000 stars spanning 108 light-years in diameter. This bright cluster can be spotted without a telescope under dark conditions but is often overshadowed by the bigger and brighter Great Hercules Cluster, M13, which is very close by. I like the way this one looks when viewing through the eyepiece as it seems more well defined than M13. Another interesting piece is that M92 is one of the oldest globular clusters in the galaxy at 14.2 billion years (sources: wikipiedia and Messier Objects).

Also. this object is the first color object I stacked using raw frames rather than converted tiff frames. If you have nothing better to do, go to the link (http://astroquest1.blogspot.com/2018/06/tiff-vs-raw-problem-of-stacking-raw-in.html) for an explanation of why I ever converted to tiff in the first place.

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