Observation by Nick Hewitt: A loose globular in Bootes

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Nick Hewitt

Observer

Nick Hewitt

Observed

2018 May 03 - 23:00

Uploaded

2018 May 09 - 13:49

Objects

NGC5466

Equipment

TMB 115mm f7 apo
EQ8
SX Trius 814
Astronomik filters

Exposure

30 mins Lum, 5 mins each RGB (more subs would heve been better)

Location

Billing, Northampton

Target name

NGC 5466 Bootes

Title

A loose globular in Bootes

About this image

An under-observed globular cluster that is well placed in May, some 10 degrees from Arcturus on the Coma Berenices border. Although 10th magnitude, it has quite low surface brightness and small telescopes generally just show a diffuse glow but it becomes very resolvable to the core with larger instruments as it is a Shapley class X11. It is fairly distant at some 50,000 light-years. Like most of the galactic globulars, it is very old (13.5 Gyr).

Files associated with this observation

NGC 5466 GC Boo LRGB copy.jpg (2.0 MB)

Like this image

Jeremy Shears, Ron Johnson, David Swan, Graham Winstanley, David Basey, Chris Hooker, Andy Wilson, Peter Carson, Robert James Stuart

Comments

David Swan, 2018 May 10 - 19:01 UTC

Thanks for pointing this one out, Nick. I'm a huge fan of globulars - whatever the density! David

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