Derby and District Astronomical Society
Messier 56 (NGC 6779)
Globular Cluster in Lyra RA 19h 16m 06s Dec +30° 11m 00s
| This image of M56 was captured by Mike Lancaster on the 22nd July 2021. It is comprised of a stack 4x3 minute exposures taken with a Mallincam Universe camera attached to a 10-inch Meade ACF SCT on an EQ-8 mount. A 0.5x Mallincam focal reducer was also used. The camera was set to a gain of 16dB, a gamma of -20, a contrast of 0, noise reduction on, and full resolution. No guiding, flats or dark frames were used. Stacking and processing was done in Nebulosity 3.3 and Photoshop Elements 2020. Image © Mike Lancaster. |
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Adrian Brown took the following image of the globular cluster M56 in Lyra on 28th May 2005. The image was taken with a C11 SCT at F6.3 and an ATK-2HS camera. K3CCDTools was used to capture and stack the 8 individual frames that were taken, each of 45 seconds exposure. Image © Adrian Brown.
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