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M 5 | |
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Location |
Taken from Rodeo New Mexico |
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Telescope & Mount |
12.5" RC |
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Camera |
Apogee 16M with Astrodon Filters |
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Image Data |
12.5" RC Rodeo New Mexico (Lightbuckets) Luminance 1x1 RGB 2x2
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Processing
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Calibrated,combned in CCD Stack all other processing done using PS5. |
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About this Object Discription from APOD
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Explanation: The globular cluster M5, pictured above, contains roughly 100,000 stars. These stars formed together and are gravitationally bound. Stars orbit the center of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy. So far, about 160 globular clusters are known to exist in a roughly spherical halo around the Galactic center. Globular clusters do not appear spherically distributed as viewed from the Earth, and this fact was a key point in the determination that our Sun is not at the center of our Galaxy. Globular clusters are very old. There is a straightforward method of determining their age, and this provides a very interesting lower limit on the age of our universe of about 14 billion years.
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