M80

This image of M80 is a single 3 minute exposures taken on April 28th, 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 an Astrophysics .75 focal reducer on the scope before I took this image.
RA (2000)
16h, 17m, 0.0s
DEC (2000)
-22°, 59', 00"
Magnitude
7.2
Size
8.9 arc min
Constellation
Scorpius
Other Name
NGC 6093
Distance
36,000 Light Years
Radial Velocity
Unknown
Object Type
Globular Cluster type 2
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