Tagged: NGC3201 - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Tagged: NGC3201

Globular Cluster Caldwell 79 / NGC 3201 thumbnail
06-Mar-2016
It's been cloudy. Very cloudy. I managed to get a short imaging session, so I had to choose a bright target. The globular cluster Caldwell 79 was in the right place at the right time. It is located at a distance of 16,300 light years from the Sun and has an estimated 254,000 times the mass of the Sun. This cluster is about 10.24 billion years old.