Deep Sky Object in Summer
NGC6934 (Globular Cluster in Delphinus)



Date & Time: Nov 7 2021, from 18:58 to 19:27 JST(+0900),
Composed 8 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight



NGC6934 / Globular Cluster, type VIII
R.A.20h 34m 12.0s (2000.0)
Dec.+07°24' 00" (2000.0)
Apparent Size5.9'
Real Size90 light yrs.
Magnitude8.9
Distance52,000 light yrs.
NGC6934 is a small globular cluster contained in the constellation of Delphinus, positioned at 7 degrees south of small diamond-shaped asterism of the constellation. The cluster has an apparent diameter of 6 arc minutes and a brightness of 9th magnitude. You can recognize it with binoculars as a stellar-like figure, and small scopes can show you a dimmed image like nebulosity. The cluster looks like a normal round shape, has no characteristics worthy of mention. It's a tiny globular in a tiny constellation being in hiding within the eastern coast of summer's Milky Way.




Around NGC6723

NGC7006


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