M14

 

M14, while certainly belonging to the class of clusters known as globulars, displays a somewhat elliptical tendency. A bit larger than its neighbors to the west, M10 and M12, M14 is also twice as distant and thus appears a full magnitude dimmer, although its true brilliance is actually much higher, shining with the luminosity of 400,000 average suns. A rather large number of variable stars have been found in M14 and a nova appeared in 1938.

Image taken through moonlight on June 26, 2012, with the C-14 operating at F:3.5 and the ST-8 binned 2 X 2. Exposure is 100 seconds.

 

Date and exposure information lost but likely taken at F:7 or F:11 with the 402 camera.