- Description: NGC5139 - Globular cluster in Centaurus, also known as Omega Centaurus. The "big one"
for globular clusters, shining brightly at magnitude 3.9. It is about 55 arc minutes in diameter, or almost twice
the size of the moon! This cluster doesn't even clear the horizon where I live, I had to go to southern Utah
to get this shot.
- Camera: Olympus OM1
- Film: Hypered Kodak tech pan
- Scope: 6" f4.5 Newtonian
- Guiding: Manual
- Exposure: 25 minutes
- Location: Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah
- Date: 23 May 1990
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