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Photographer:

Aaron A. Jocko

Location of Photo:

Backyard,Mattawa,Ontario

Date/Time of photo:

3/29/07/ 01:16am

Equipment:

Orion 120mm ST on a cg5 mount 50sec ISO 1600

Description:

Globular Cluster M92 (NGC 6341), class IV, in Discovered 1777 by Johann Elert Bode. Cataloged on March 18, 1781, the same day as 8 other objects, all of them Virgo Cluster galaxies (M84-M91). It was William Herschel who first resolved it into stars in 1783.

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