Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Tucana (Tuc)  ·  Contains:  47 Tuc  ·  47 Tuc Cluster  ·  NGC 104
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Caldwell 106 (47 Tucanae), Mathieu Guinot
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Caldwell 106 (47 Tucanae)

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Caldwell 106 (47 Tucanae)

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47 Tucanae, or 47 Tuc (also designated NGC 104)  is the second brightest globular cluster in the sky (after Omega Centauri). It is located about 15000 light-years away in the constellation Tucan and is about 120 light years in diameter.
Caldwell 106 is noted for having a small very bright and dense core and is one of the most massive globular clusters in the Galaxy, containing millions of stars. The cluster appears roughly the size of the full moon and though it appears adjacent to the SMC, it is over fifteen times closer than it.

Data bought from Telescope Live and taken at El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

I am not used to process globular clusters but found it very interesting and tried to do it as natural as possible, keeping the object dynamic range as possible without doing HDR processing, and with only less than 1h of exposures.

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Caldwell 106 (47 Tucanae), Mathieu Guinot

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