This is the first of four images taken from 1:32:04am-1:43:37am. This image, is a stack of 2-22 second images
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Interested
in Observing Globular Clusters?
You
can get a Pin for it with The Astonomical leauge.
...
....
Through
a 80mm Stellarvue ST-6 Refractor
on top a Celestron C-14 for Guiding & Tracking Vu after
New Stellarvue Crayford Focuser
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I
thought this was the lowest altitude O.C. had been imaged, BUT
........
Here
are some ST-6/C-14 image of the Omega Centauri Globular Cluster taken from
the
Pawnee
Prairie Grasslands Cactus Flats Star
party site .
Latitude
40* 39' 15" N by Longitude 104* 26' 52" W (Baker Draw
Quad) and an elevation
of
5039 ft. Almost
the lowest imaging of the globular cluster ever taken.
According
to TheSKY4, the parameters of Omega Centauri on 03/10/02 at the the time
these
expsoures were taken were:
Dreyer
Descr. GCL,OMEGA CENTAURI
Magnitude:
3.7
RA:13h
26m 56.1s Dec:-47d 29' 33"
Azm:173d
06' 34" Alt:+01* 21' 37" !!!
Rise:
00:40 Transit: 02:13 Set: 03:46 (Should have
waited 41 mins)
RA:13h
26m 48.0s Dec:-47d 29' 00" Epoch 2000
Size
(mins) 36.3
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(Well,
that didn't take long) From LeRoy Gautney: 03/18/02
"Go
North young man! I'm wondering if you could do better than this guy
did? http://rppass.com/n5139-00.htm
It
would only take 1 degree, 55 minutes, 45 seconds of latitude to edge his
record farthest north latitude (as far
as
anybody knows) of imaging Omega Centauri."
But in my defense, my picture does not use the happenstance of refraction
and
the cluster can readily be seen in my shot, it is VERY hard to see the
cluster
in Ralphs' shot. Though I do appalude Ralph's efforts in obtaining
an
image
of O.C. so far north I guess I'm going to have to try this shot from
Douglas
Wyoming!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Here's what the Hubble
Space Telescope Resolved.from space. tjt
05/27/17