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Photographer:

Image acquisition by Jim Misti, processed by Mark Germani

Location of Photo:

Northwestern Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

May 3, 2005

Equipment:

Optical Guidance Systems 32" Ritchey-Chretien telescope and SBIG STL-11000m CCD camera

Description:

M92 is a target of interest for me, being one of the oldest globular clusters and full of metal-poor stars. Its age is estimated at 13.8 billion years making it roughly as old as the universe itself which is a real head-scratcher! Jim Misti acquired the data for this target in May of 2005, which I processed 20 years later using modern astrophotography software. I am very grateful to Jim Misti for making this data freely available to the public!

Website:

https://app.astrobin.com/u/mgermani