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.
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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 April 15th 2009.