M28 Globular Cluster in Sagittarius

One of the more compact and dense globular clusters. The distance to this cluster is about 15,000 light years and its diameter is about 65 light years. There is likely a large amount of absorbtion in this area which dims this cluster perhaps 2 magnitudes.

Images taken with TEC-140 Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus.

Five 1 minute exposures dark, flat, and bias compensated, aligned and stacked, background removed and Digitaly Developed in ImagesPlus 2.75 beta 2.