Observation by Nick James: M15

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2020 Sep 20 - 19:12

Uploaded

2020 Sep 20 - 22:30

Objects

M15

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Constellation

Pegasus

Field centre

RA: 21^h29^m
Dec: +12°09'
Position angle: -0°18'

Field size

0°33' × 0°23'

Equipment

Celestron HD11 + FLI6303

Exposure

18x60s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

M15

Title

M15

About this image

The seeing was good tonight (FWHM 2".3) so I captured this image of M15 to help test some software I'm using to extract sources from images. This is a log representation to bring out the fainter outer stars without saturating the core.

Files associated with this observation

m15_20200920_2012_ndj.jpg (866.1 kB)

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