This image of M24 is single 3 minute exposures taken on March 24, 2001 with my Ritchey-Chretien 12.5 inch F/7.25 telescope, with a SBIG ST-8 and the AO-7 Adaptive Optics. I put a Astrophysics .75 focal reducer on the scope before I took this image.
RA (2000)
18h, 18m, 24.0s
DEC (2000)
-18°, 25', 00"
Magnitude
11.1
Size
5.0 arc min
Constellation
Sagittarius
Other Name
NGC6603
Distance
16,000 Light Years
Radial Velocity
Unknown
Object Type
I 1 r Open Cluster
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