M62

by Willem Jan Drijfhout

Equipment: Planewave CDK14, Moravian Instruments C3-61000 PRO

Integration: 6h

M62 is among the ten most massive and luminous globular clusters in the Milky Way, and 'only' 5,500 lightyear away from the Milky Way core. Due to its close proximity to the core the star field around the cluster is also very crowded. The original plan was to capture close to 10h of data, but due to the very low altitude (it doesn't get much higher than around 22° from where I image), a lot of…