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NGC 6752 with IFN - widefield

NGC 6752, nicknamed the Starfish, Windmill or Great Peacock Globular, is a globular cluster in the constellation Pavo.
It is the third brightest in the sky, after 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri.

The core region densely populated with stars around 1.3 light years in diameter, which indicates it has undergone core collapse.
The cluster lies around 13,000 light years distant and is one of the closer globular clusters to Earth.(WIKI)

Also In this Widefield image - several galaxies and Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) can be seen.
(Please see next images for a cropped enlarged view...)

Many galaxies can be seen in a closer look.
Please see next 2nd image for a cropped view of the Quadruplet galaxies on the Right.

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.
L-RGB image

Luminance - 90 min
RGB 20 minutes each Bin 2x2

(Total of 150 minutes )

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia July 2013.


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