M 79 (NGC 1904) Globular Cluster in Lepus
Located at: RA 05 hours 24 minutes 11 seconds, Dec -24 degrees 31 minutes 27 seconds
Size: 9.6'; Magnitude: 7.7; Class: 5
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 220 minutes (22 x 10 minute subs), 03/04/05/8/2008; seeing 2.7-6.8 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | I almost waited too long to start imaging M 79 this season ... M 79 is lower than I realized, and I was loosing tracking as it passed behind the palm tree to my south, which has grown quite a bit since this image was taken (see Looking South) |