M80

[dcrowson]

M80 (NGC 6093 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2 ... tion_Class) globular cluster located approximately 29,900 light-years away in Scorpius.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged over six nights in March and April, 2024 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 3/sizes/l/



Dan

[SparWeb]

Love the gold.