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Mercer 5, John Bozeman

Mercer 5

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Mercer 5

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A dust-obscured Galactic star cluster Mercer 5 in an extremely crowded field in the Milky Way. it is almost certainly a Galactic globular cluster, located at the edge of the Galactic bulge. The cluster suffers ∼9 mag of visual extinction, with strong evidence for an extinction gradient across the cluster. The cluster is at a distance of ∼5.5 kpc and suffers from visual extinction ranging from ∼8.5 to ∼12.5 mag. 

Data from the Hubble Space Telescope MAST Portal. Release date: 2024-03-14

Camera: WFC3

RED - F160W
GREEN - F125W
BLUE - F125W

Processed with FITS Liberator, GraXpert, PixInsight and Photoshop 2024.

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Mercer 5, John Bozeman