- Description: A large group of galaxies in Hercules some 509 million light-years distant. Covering an
area about 56 arc minutes across, there are about 200 galaxies in this cluster. Rich with both spiral galxies and
interacting pairs. Only a few of the galaxies appear in this shot! The brightest is elliptical NGC6041 at magnitude
14.3, only 1 x 1 arc minutes in size.
- Film: Hypered Kodak tech pan
- Scope: 8" f6 Newtonian
- Filter: none
- Exposure: 75 Minutes
- Guiding: Manual
- Location: near Cochrane, Ab.
- Date: 7 May 1989.
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