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M55

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - 300mm OOUK AG12 Newtonian, QSI WSG-8, Software Bisque PME

Guiding - SBIG STi

Software - MaximDL 6, Focusmax V4, SkyX, CCDautopilot 5

LRGB 3 hours

Processed in CCDstack 2 and Photoshop CS6

Object - Located in the constellation of Sagittarius at a distance of 17,600 light years.

This globular cluster has a radius 48 light years and a mass of 269,000 times of the Sun.