M14

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Constellation- Ophiuchus

Right Ascension: 17h  38m 39 s

Declination: -3° 15' 23"

Distance:  ~30,000 light years

Visual Brightness: mag 7.6

Apparent Dimension:   11.7 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-December 7, 2003

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- C11 OTA @ f/6.8, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided with PHD 2.5 or internal guide chip

Integrations-  4x L = 600 seconds binned 2x2,

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDSoft, aligned, combined, and processed  in CCDSoft and Photoshop CS5