Palomar 3

[dcrowson]

Palomar 3 (Sextans C, UGC 5439 and others) is a Shapley-Sawyer class XII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2 ... tion_Class) globular cluster located approximately 312,000 light-years away in Sextans.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on February 8th, 2024 at the Whetstone Creek Conservation Area (Williamsburg, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 8/sizes/l/
LRGB crop - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 3/sizes/l/



Dan

[Graeme1858]

Looks like a Class XII is almost an Open Cluster!

You captured quite a few background galaxies!

Graeme