Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| Designation | NGC 5999, Bennett 71 |
| Object type | Open cluster |
| Coordinates | 15h 52 min - 56° 29' Norma (Nor) |
| Description | NGC 5999 features
straggling outliers and no bright stars. Still, it is visually more
conspicuous than this CCD image of a dense Milky Way portion in Norma
suggests.
The field of view is 37 x 25 arc minutes. North is up (15°). |
| Exposure | NRGB 36:12:12:12 min @ -20°C ; all exposures unbinned, no filter on luminance |
| 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 11, Adobe Photoshop CS |
| Location - Date - Time | San Esteban (Chile) - 23Apr2006 @ 06:00 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 5/10, Seeing 5-6/10, Temperature + 17°C |
