The globular cluster M2 in Aquarius.
This image was acquired using an STL11000M CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP-127is.
It is a color composite of 16 minutes of unfiltered luminance and 8 minutes each of red, green and blue filtered data.
The images were calibrated and stacked and 32 iterations of Lucy-Richardson deconvolution were performed.
The composite image was auto color balanced using AIP4Win V2.
This image has been cropped down from its original size of 4008x2672.
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