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47  Tucanae

47 Tucanae

Date: September 9, 2010
Location: Parque Nacional La Campana, Chile
Constellation: Tucana
Optics: Williams Optic 66 on Meade LXD55 mount
Camera: Canon EOS 20Da modified
Exposure: 10 light frames of 60 seconds, ISO 800
Processing: Light frames calibrated with dark frames in ImagesPlus. Light frames combined using MinMax Excluded. Color balanced, and cropped using Photoshop.

47 Tucanae (NGC 104) or just 47 Tuc is the second brightest globular cluster in the sky. A very bright and dense core can be seen in this picture. A second globular cluster, NGC 121 is located left of 47 Tuc.