Designation |
NGC 5999, Bennett 71 |
Object type |
Open cluster |
Coordinates |
15h 52 min - 56°
29' Norma (Nor) |
Description |
NGC 5999 features
straggling outliers and no bright stars. Still, it is visually more
conspicuous than this CCD image of a dense Milky Way portion in Norma
suggests.
The field of view is 37 x 25 arc minutes.
North is up (15°).
|
Exposure |
NRGB 36:12:12:12 min @ -20°C
; all exposures unbinned, no filter on luminance |
Camera |
SBIG STL-11000 with Astronomik
Type 2 filterset - selfguided |
Optics |
RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien
@ f/9
(prime focus) |
Mount |
Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
Software |
MaxIm DL/CCD, Sigma Pre Beta 11,
Adobe
Photoshop CS |
Location - Date - Time |
San Esteban (Chile) - 23Apr2006 @
06:00
UTC |
Conditions |
Transparency 5/10, Seeing
5-6/10, Temperature
+ 17°C |