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Photographer:
massimo.difusco
Location of Photo:
Ferrara (Italy)
Date/Time of photo:
04/04/2025 04:00
Equipment:
Konus 200/1000 @950mm, Player One Poseidon-C camera, Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro Mount, Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter
Description:
NGC 6366 is a globular cluster 11700 light years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus that is reddened due to extinction by dust in the galactic plane. Therefore, it looks almost golden and forms a beautiful color contrast against the blue foreground star HD 157950. It is designated as XI in the Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class and was discovered by the German astronomer Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke on 12 April 1860. NGC 6366 is similar in composition to M 71 or NGC 6342. It is metal-rich for a globular cluster, and all of its stars appears to have formed in the same epoch.
