Date/Location |
July 20, 2012 KEASA Observatory, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii |
Camera and Settings |
SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD Camera -10°C |
Telescope |
Stellarvue SV102 102 mm apochromatic refractor at f/6.3 (using a Televue 0.8x FF/FR) |
Mount |
Orion Atlas |
Exposure |
50 minutes (5 x 10 min) |
Processing |
CCDOpts, Images Plus 3.0, Photoshop |
Other |
M7 (centered on left half of image) - Mag. 3.3 galactic cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. 80 arc minutes in diameter. NGC6453 (upper right hand corner of image) - Mag. 10.1 globular cluster, 20 arc minutes in diameter. Hard to distinguish the outer stars of the globular cluster from the forground Milky Way stars! |
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