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Palomar 5 (Serpens Dwarf, UGC 9792 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class XII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2 ... tion_Class) globular cluster located approximately 75,000 light-years away in Serpens.

Luminance – 24x300s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 6x300s – 30 minutes each – binned 2x2

210 minutes total exposure – 3 hours 30 minutes

Imaged on March 19th, 2023 at the Danville Conservation Area (New Florence, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 9/sizes/l/

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Hi Dan. A very nice Palomar 5 globular cluster image in LRGB light. Excellent contrast and a colorful star field, especially on the flickr site. Thanks for sharing this capture (wow, 3 1/2 hours of data) with us on here Dan and keep up your great imaging work.
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Hello Dan,

Excellent image of Pal 5!

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You've captured some beautiful star colours Dan :)
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Another beauty and lovely star colours.
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Beautiful Dan! That is indeed a pretty loose glob.
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