Wide-field view of Messier 30 (ground-based image)
This wide-field image of the sky around the globular cluster Messier 30 was created from photographs forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Located about 28 000 light-years away from Earth, this cluster — a swarm of several hundred thousand stars — is about 90 light-years across. The field of view is approximately 2.9 degrees across.
Credit:
ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2
Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin
About the Image
| Id: | heic0918c |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 23 December 2009, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0918 |
| Size: | 10635 x 10653 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Messier 30 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Grouping : Cluster : Globular |
| Distance: | 28000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical B |
DSS |
| Optical R |
DSS |
