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M92 is a beautiful globular cluster in our own Milky Way galaxy, about 26,700 light years away. It's about 109 light years in diameter, and may have a mass of up to 330,000 suns. Both cooler yellowish stars and hotter bluish star are visible in the cluster. |
Image taken on May 23, 2006
Kitt Peak National Observatory,
Kitt Peak, AZ
Seeing conditions: 1.8 arcsecond stellar images (FWHM).
Luminance = 20 minutes (10 x 2)
binned 1x1
Red = 10 minutes (5 x 2)
binned 2x2
Green = 10 minutes (5 x 2)
binned 2x2
Blue = 10 minutes (5 x 2)
binned 2x2