NGC 6366 Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus
Located at: RA 17 hours 27 minutes 44 seconds, Dec -05 degrees 04 minutes 36 seconds
Size: 13'; Magnitude: 9.5; Class: 11
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.54 |
| Image: |
Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 220 minutes (22 x 10 minute subs), 08/16/17/2006 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, California 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | NGC 6366 has a similar problem as NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula) ... a bright star is causing the north-south fan shaped reflection (that is not a blooming artifact) ... probably caused by my cheap red Hoya filter |