Images from the NTU telescope

This colour image, showing the globular cluster M53, was taken by Amandine Belledent, a second year student from IUT Université d’Auvergne - Clermont in France. The image was taken on April 10 and 12, 2011 with the Meade ETX-125 at NTU and consist of a 10-minute red, 10-minute green, and 24-minute blue image.

A Globular cluster is a dense group of stars and it is situated in the constellation Coma Berenices. It has a diameter of roughly 220 light years. M53 is 58,000 light years away from our solar system; this is the farthest globular cluster in our Galaxy.

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