The Messier Ten Minute Challenge

M69 - Globular Cluster in Sagittarius

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.


Details of the observatory and telescope


In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory

Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.

This page was last updated on April 8th 2008.