Messier 79 (NGC 1904)
From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was data from the globular cluster M79 in the constellation Lepus.
The images were taken with the following equipment (Telescope Live, CHI-1)
| Location | El Sauce Observatory, Chile |
| Telescope | Planwave CDK 24 |
| Focal length [mm] | 3962 |
| Focal ratio | 6,5 |
| Mount | Mathis MI-1000/1250 |
| Camera | QHY 600M Pro |
| Filter | L:R:G:B |
| Exposure time [min] | 90:100:120:125 |
| Resolution | 0,39″/px |
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
Messier 79 annotated
In the field were quiet a lot of quasars (see annotation). The three most distant of them are:
MQ J052414.54-242649.6 with a redshift of 2.6
MQ J052336.21-243748.3 with a redshift of 1.5
MQ J052431.31-243943.9 with a redshift of 1.5
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