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NGC2419-Intergalactic_Wanderer-1
NGC 2419 is called the Intergalactic Wanderer because unlike most Milky Way globular clusters it lies far away: about 300,000 light years. The Sky Atlas 2000.0 Companion says "In good seeing at the prime focus of the Palomar 200-inch reflector, Rene Racine and William Harris barely resolved the cluster's brighter stars visually. In the 6-inch SV-152 refractor it is visible as a dim smudge. This exposure is 2 minutes each luminance, red, and green, and about 4 minutes blue. Seeing was very good. The brightest star in this image is magnitude 7.2 and was not visible to the naked eye.
Scope, camera and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).
NGC2419-Intergalactic_Wanderer-1
NGC 2419 is called the Intergalactic Wanderer because unlike most Milky Way globular clusters it lies far away: about 300,000 light years. The Sky Atlas 2000.0 Companion says "In good seeing at the prime focus of the Palomar 200-inch reflector, Rene Racine and William Harris barely resolved the cluster's brighter stars visually. In the 6-inch SV-152 refractor it is visible as a dim smudge. This exposure is 2 minutes each luminance, red, and green, and about 4 minutes blue. Seeing was very good. The brightest star in this image is magnitude 7.2 and was not visible to the naked eye.
Scope, camera and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).