M15

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Constellation- Pegasus

Right Ascension: 21h  30m 48 s

Declination: 12° 14' 42"

Distance:  ~33,600 light years

Visual Brightness: mag 6.4

Apparent Dimension:   12.3arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-Oct. 31, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- C11 OTA @ f/6.8, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided with PHD 2.5 or internal guide chip

Integrations-  RGB = 6 x 480 seconds each binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDSoft, aligned, combined, and processed  in CCDSoft and Photoshop CS5