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M15 Globular star cluster.

 

First discovered in 1746 by an Italian named Jean-Dominique Maraldi. It's approximately 33,600 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. M15 is one of the densest clusters yet discovered with many very hot blue stars and many of the cooler orange stars becoming more concentrated towards the core.

 

It was the first of only four globular clusters found to be hosting a planetary nebula. The one in M56 is named Pease 1, after it's discoverer Francis G. Pease in 1928.

It's also thought to contain a black hole at it's core, estimated to be 4,000 times the mass of our Sun.

 

I also had a little play with the 3D module in StarTools. It looks great using the cross eyed method, but when I save it then try loading to Facebook, it doesn't come out very well sadly.

 

Took the image with a Skywatcher 8" quattro and a Canon 1100D. Along with some other bits n bobs and lots of images stacked together. Processed everything together with DeepSkyStacker & StarTools.

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