Observation by Alan Thomas: NGC6712 Globular Cluster in Scutum

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Alan Thomas

Observer

Alan Thomas

Observed

2022 Jul 15 - 23:58

Uploaded

2022 Jul 16 - 10:38

Objects

NGC6712

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Constellation

Scutum

Field centre

RA: 18^h53^m
Dec: -08°42'
Position angle: +2°18'

Field size

0°36' × 0°27'

Equipment

Unistellar eQuinox 112mm reflector

Exposure

20min.

Location

Norbreck Observatory, Warrington, Cheshire, UK.

Target name

NGC6712 Globular Cluster in Scutum

Title

NGC6712 Globular Cluster in Scutum

About this image

This class IX globular cluster was probably discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil - surely one of history's unluckiest astronomers - in July 1749. He described it as a "true nebula".

This image shows a 'cloudy', nebula-like core unevenly dotted with irregular clusters of brighter stars, surrounded by a sparse, loose scattering of surrounding stars barely distinguishable from the background. A perpendicular line of six faint, perfectly aligned stars rises from the middle of the cluster. An interesting object.

Diameter c. 50ly. Distance c.26,000ly. Age c.10.4 billion years.

Bortle 7/8. Moon waxing gibbous 93% 17 days old, but very low in the SE.

Files associated with this observation

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