This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images taken with a Takahashi Epsilon 250 with SBIG ST-8XE CCD. The image has been cut down to be 20 x 20 arc minutes in size.
Messier 14 (M14, NGC 6402) was discovered by Messier in 1764. It is slightly elliptical in shape and is about 100 light years in diameter. It lies at a distance of 30,000 light years.
In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on March 15th 2008.