Astrophotos

Messier 22 cluster

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Messier 22 (NGC 6656) cluster photographed in Velestovo, Macedonia on 27-28.08.2016. Obtained by stacking of 277 light, 20 dark and 20 flat frames in DeepSky Stackerer. Photograph is captured with Canon 1100d  attached to f/4 astrograph telescope with 200mm aperture, by using 0.5 sec shutter speed  and ISO 6400. The cluster is at distance of 10.000 light years from earth, has 5.09 visual magnitude and have apparent size of 32 arcmin. It is located in the Sagitarius Constelation.

Messier 22 cluster was last modified: July 13th, 2017 by Jovan Stosic