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Names ABELL 1689, ZwCl 1308.8-0103
Right Ascension (2000.0) 13:11:29.5
Declination -01:20:17
Constellation Virgo
Redshift (z) 0.183200
Heliocentric Radial Velocity 54922 km/s
Distance (esteem) 2,180,000,000 light years
Date (DD/MM/YYYY) 16/03/2013
Exposure time 12,000 seconds (8 x 1500 exposures) with binning mode 1 x 1 and AO-7
CCD Camera SBIG ST-8XE
Telescope Meade Instruments Schmidt-Cassegrain 14" LX200 OTA on 10 Micron GM2000 HPS Mount
Focal length 3556 mm
Diameter 355.6 mm
Focal ratio 10
Field of View 13.3 x 8.9 arcminute
Original scale 0.522 arcsecond / pixel

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey images
POSS I/E DSS1 Red
POSS I/O DSS2 Blue
POSS II/F DSS2 Red
POSS II/J DSS2 Blue
POSS II Color
Sloan Digital Sky Survey images
SDSS image
Hubble Space Telescope image
ACS/WFC

This cluster is a very famous example of gravitational arcs. Due to bad seeing and the extreme faintness and subtleness of these features, they aren't visible on my image.
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