Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| Designation | NGC 5286, Bennett 64, Caldwell 84 |
| Object type | Globular cluster |
| Coordinates | 13h 46 min - 51° 22' Centaurus (Cen) |
| Description | NGC 5286 is a globular cluster
located 4.3° SSW of Zeta Centauri. Described as very bright (
mag 7.6 ), fairly large ( 9 arcmins ), round and extremely
rich, it has stars mag 15 and fainter. The foreground star is
the spectroscopic binary star M Centauri and at
mag 4.6 is easily visible to the naked eye under reasonably dark skies.
Click on the image for a higher resolution rendering. The field of view is 37 x 25 arcminutes with north towards the top. |
| Exposure | LRGB 50:12:12:12 min @ -20°C ; all exposures unbinned |
| Camera | SBIG STL-11000 with Astronomik Type 2 filterset - selfguided |
| Optics | RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien @ f/9 (prime focus) |
| Mount | Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software | MaxIm DL/CCD, Sigma Pre Beta, Registar, Adobe Photoshop CS |
| Location - Date - Time | San Esteban (Chile) - 11Apr2005 @ 06:00 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 8, Seeing 8, Temperature + 7°C |
