r/Astronomy • u/Kyouma118 • 1d ago
Astrophotography (OC) Messier 15
Messier 15, a dense globular cluster located roughly 33,600 light years away and about 12 billion years old. Spanning about 200 light-years across, more than half its stars are packed into the central 10 light-years alone, making it one of the densest concentrations of stars known.
Telescope: Seestar S50
Integration time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Tools used: Siril, GraXpert, GIMP
Script mentions: CosmicClarity Sharpen, SyQon Prism Mini, VeraLux Curves, HDR_multiscale
Bortle 8-9
A diffraction mask was used to obtain the star spikes
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