Capricorn - Palomar 12

[Mike JW]

Palomar 12 at -21 DEC is too low for anything worthwhile but here is my attempt from last night (Aug 18th). It lies about 62,000 lyrs away and is about 52 lyrs across. It is a relatively young globular cluster. Its proper motion indicates that it may have been captured from the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical galaxy about 1.7 billion years ago. Below next to my poor shot is the Hubble image.

Edited August 19, 2020 by Mike JW

[Martin Meredith]

That's a great comparison. If I get a chance I will give this one a go tonight, probably using longer exposures now we have the Hubble image to check against...