M 12 - Gumball Cluster in Ophiuchus (Monty Chandler)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: HD151392 · HD151526 · M 12 · NGC 6218

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M 12 - Gumball Cluster in Ophiuchus

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M 12 - Gumball Cluster in Ophiuchus

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Another of the globular cluster targets on my list, M12 is bright and colorful. This image consists of 137 60 second subs taken with a GSO RC8 and a ZWO ASI071MC Pro camera cooled to 15f, riding an EQ6r Pro munt. Certainly a challenging night for imaging as we experienced a very rare Aurora this night here in the hills of NC. Seeing and transparency were poor and the wind was present so guiding was not the best. Still, I'm happy with it!

Messier 12 (M12), also known as the Gumball Cluster, is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus. It's located about 15,700–23,000 light-years from Earth and has a diameter of 75 light-years. M12 is one of the brightest of the seven Messier globulars in Ophiuchus, and it's approaching our solar system at a speed of 16 kilometers per second.

M12 has fewer low-mass stars than expected, and astronomers believe that gravity has stripped many of them from the cluster as it passed through denser areas of the Milky Way. It's thought that M12 may have lost up to one million stars in this way.

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RA (center)	16h47m15s.844
RA (top/left)	16h46m11s.310
RA (top/right)	16h46m14s.563
RA (bottom/right)	16h48m20s.961
RA (bottom/left)	16h48m17s.354

Dec (center)	-01°57′17″.52
Dec (top/left)	-01°33′09″.35
Dec (top/right)	-02°22′02″.36
Dec (bottom/right)	-02°21′27″.83
Dec (bottom/left)	-01°32′34″.60

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