Observations of NGC7006
These are the observations available for NGC7006. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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Two faint globular clusters in Delphinus
NGC 6934
The first is NGC 6934, imaged on 16th August 2018 but processed only earlier this year.
NGC 6934 is a faint globular cluster of magnitude 8.8 and containing 16th magnitude stars and fainter. It is 51,000 light years away.
This image of NGC 6924 was provided by David Davies and taken from Cambridge in the UK. The image comprises 10 each of RGB subs of five minutes exposure. To see more of David's work please visit his Flickr Photostream. Click on the image for the larger version. NGC 7006
The second is NGC 7006 captured in September 2018.
NGC 7006 lies on the fringe of the Milky Way's halo at a distance of 135,000 light years. In the 1910s and 20s, studies by Shapley of the stars in NGC 7006 and other globular clusters were used to measure the size of the Milky Way galaxy.
This cluster lies at a low galactic latitude and its brightness is dimmed by the intervening dust. It has a visual magnitude of 10.6 and stars near the core are around mag 15.6.
This image of NGC 7006 was provided by David Davies and taken from Cambridge in the UK. It comprises 10 x seven-minute subs of RGB. To see more of David's work please visit his Flickr Photostream. Click on the image for the larger version. Image Details
- Telescope: 8" Ritchey-Chretien at F/8.2
- Camera: QSI 583 with a Lodestar as off-axis guider
- Mount: Skywatcher EQ6
David Davies - (20 March 2019).
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NGC 7006 and the surrounding galaxies
Another of my compilation observations taken from the conversations on our Yahoo! Forum about the Globular Cluster, NGC 7006, and the faint galaxies that share the field of view.
Dale Holt's observation
Sketches of faint galaxies, some of them I haven't identified around the small GC NGC 7006 in Delphinus. These video assisted observations were made following inspiration of Ken Hewitt-Whites, going deep in the latest addition of S&T magazine.
Sketch by Dale Holt with video assisted observing.
John Vickers' observation
- N7006 GC Del
- RA-Dec 21 01 29.2, +16 11 15
- Designation NGC 7006, Cald 42, GCL 119, IAU 2059+160.
- Brightest star visual magnitude: 16.-m.
10.6m 2.8' 12.1SB. Extremely faint stars. A very remote loose group of 7 small, extremely faint galaxies is ~5.7' SW. 10.7m reddish star 7.4' SSE.
Dreyer Bright, pretty large, round, gradually brighter middle.
Other Globular cluster, mottled. Very difficult to resolve. Contains 71 observed variable stars.
This is a POSSII combined IR-Red-Blue labeled image of N7006 from the BRO database. With those faint galaxies labelled.
