There are a lot of globular clusters out there and this one looks a lot like the typical globular. But, they make good “filler” targets because they don’t need much total time and they are still interesting.

In this case, I was spending most of the night on Sharpless 112 but it didn’t get high enough to start until about an hour after astronomical dark. I filled that hour with this target because clear nights are not to be wasted!

This globular is in Ophiuchus (the zodiac constellation that astrology forgot) and it is fairly low – especially since I was imaging it early in the night when it was at its lowest. It worked out ok though and there are lots of stars in there.

The cluster is about 13,600 light years away and has roughly the same apparent size as the full moon.

This is 2h 16m 30s of RGB data. For all the technical details, see astrobin.