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This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images taken with a RCOS 10" operating at f/6. The image has been cut down to be 15 x 15 arc minutes in size.
M69 (NGC 6637) is one of the smaller and fainter Messier globular clusters. It has a diameter of about 60 light years and is at a distance of about 30000 light years.
In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on April 15th 2009.