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"Messier 4"

Credit: Giovanni Vincenzo Donatiello (@giovannivincenzo_donatiello)

Piano Visitone, Pollino National Park, August 18, 2023

Taken with Mak 127 + EOS4000D

 

Cross-stack with just three 30-second exposures at IS0 3200.

 

Messier 4 or M4 (NGC 6121) is a globular cluster at approximately 7,200 light years, the same distance as NGC 6397, making these the two closest globular clusters. It has an estimated age of 12.2 billion years.

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Uploaded on August 27, 2023