TheSkySearchers

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/



Dan

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.

Hello Dan,

Excellent image of Pal 5!

best,
Bernhard

You've captured some beautiful star colours Dan

Another beauty and lovely star colours.

Beautiful Dan! That is indeed a pretty loose glob.