NGC 7492 - 18.11.2022 at 20.15 Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio Observation number 111063

Visibility I / V

Toni Veikkolainen, Kari Laihia, Juha Blad, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair

I had to try photographing this low-lying globular mass at the beginning of the November talks on Tähtikallio. The object came into view dim and scattered and could almost be mistaken for a dense open cluster of stars.

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Observation target
- Deep space object
Designation
- NGC 7492
Constellation
- Aquarius
Field of view
31 arc minutes
Weather
- Lähes selkeää ja tyyntä, ei Kuuta näkyvissä

Darkness
- Good
Seeing
- Good
Limiting magnitude
- 6
Star clusters and asterisms
- Globular cluster
  
  Globular cluster is a ball-shaped group of thousand of stars. Typically it looks like a round fuzzy spot. With bigger instruments a part of the stars in the cluster can be seen as sepaterated.
  
  The globular cluster 47 Tucanae is located in Tucana. Image Arto Oksanen.
  
  The globular cluster M13 is in Hercules. Image Rauno Päivinen.
  
  The globular cluster M2 in Aquarius. Image Timo Inkinen.

Technical information

Alluna RC16, C415/3320, Moravian G4-16000 EC Mark II, with filter L 11 x 60 s, 20 x bias, 20 x dark, 10 x flat, 3x binning, image cropped

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NGC 7492 - 18.11.2022 at 20.15 Orimattila, Artjärvi, Tähtikallio Observation number 111063