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           NGC 5466     
       Globular Cluster in Boötes
      RA:14h 06m 00s  Dec: +28° 15' 12" Distance - ~51,800 ly  Size 136 ly


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Location & Date
Backyard, Abbott Observatory- Long Island, NY,  March 2022
Telescope
Orion ED80 F/7 APO, Moonlite focuser, iOptron GEM45G, Pegasus Falcon rotator
Image scale 2.54 arcsec/pixel
Camera
SBIG ST-2000XM
Baader  L R G B  filters
CCD temp -15°C
Exposures
  L- 16 x 5m  Red- 12 x 5m  Green - 12 x 5m  Blue- 12 x 5m   Bin 1x1  per panel
Planning & Acquisition
Image planning - Sequence Generator Pro Mosaic Planning
Image acquisition - Sequence Generator Pro w/PinPoint & PHD2 (guiding)
Processing
CCDStack -  Calibration, Normalize, Alignment,  Deconvolution
Adobe PS -  LRGB combine, Color adjustments, Noise reduction, Sharpen, JPEG conversion
RC-Astro Star XTerminator


Wikipedia-

     NGC 5466 is a class XII globular cluster in the constellation Boötes. Located 51,800 light years from Earth and 52,800 light years from the galactic center, it was discovered by William Herschel on May 17, 1784, as H VI.9. This globular cluster is unusual insofar as it contains a certain blue horizontal branch of stars, as well as being unusually metal poor like ordinary globular clusters. It is thought to be the source of a stellar stream discovered in 2006, called the 45 Degree Tidal Stream. This star stream is an approximately 1.4° wide star lane extending from Boötes to Ursa Major.

NGC 5466 position shown relative to our location (Sun) in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Galatic Longitude: 42.1
Galatic Latitude: 73.6
Distance from Galatic Plane: 50,116 ly above the galatic plane

Above image and info provided by Our Galaxy 3D Atlas application and used with permission by Otherwise