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M92 Globular Cluster

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M92 Globular Cluster

Description: M92 is a splendid object, visible to the naked eye under very good conditions and a showpiece for every optics. It is only slightly less bright but about 1/3 less extended than M13: its 11.2 arcminute angular extension corresponds to a true diameter of 85 light years, and may have a mass of up to 330,000 suns.

Credit: Daniel Bramich (ING) and Nik Szymanek.

Date: 2001.

Technical information
Telescope: 1.0m Jacobus Kapteyn.
Instrument: CCD Camera.
Detector: SITe2.
Filters and exposure times: This image was achieved by combining 100-s exposures in B, V and R filters.

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