Observation by Paul Leyland: Terzan 1

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Dr Paul Leyland

Observer

Paul Leyland

Observed

2022 Aug 30 - 22:48

Uploaded

2022 Sep 03 - 14:21

Equipment

0.4m Dilworth Relay
SX 694 CCD camera
No filter

Exposure

1530 seconds in 51 subs.

Location

Tacande Observatory, MPC J22

Target name

Globular cluster Terzan 1

Title

Terzan 1

About this image

Terzan 1 is a relatively little known globular cluster in the Milky Way deep in the star fields of Scorpius. It is heavily obscured by stars and dust and lies only 1300 parsec from the galactic center, though 6700 parsec from us. The image has been processed to show the relatively faint stars in the GC, so the foreground stars appear bloated and over-exposed. Terzan 1 is actually rather big on the sky, about 11 arc minutes across, and so its fainter outermost stars lie beyond the edges of the image.

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