Conditions:

Date: 2023 05 20 Wishing Well Cluster / Amas porte bonheur

Mount: IOPTRON CEM70AG 1
Optic; TS-Optics 10" f/4 UNC Newtonian Telescope with Carbon Tube F/D=4 + flattener corrector
Focale: 1000mm - Diameter:254mm Camera: QHY268 + IR cut 2"
Site: Bois de Nefles Saint-Paul 55° 19'54"E / 20° 59'58"S
Seeing: Humidity + Light polution
Capture: 40 x 120 sec Temp: -8 deg
Guidind refractor 400mm + ZWO Asi178 (+-0.41" arc)(medium)
Pre processing Dark
Software: OS Ubuntu-Linux - Kstars EKOS INDI- ASTROBERY - PHD guiding - Siril - Gimp

Informations:
The cluster is less well known due to its location in the southern sky and was first catalogued by Discovered by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752 from the Cape of Good Hope.
Magnitude: 7.0
1 321 light-years away from Earth

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