Had a nice night with a waxing quarter moon in the sky but otherwise good seeing conditions. Was annoyed at the ever increasing satellites making streaks on the early subs but not so much after midnight. Set up with 120 second subs and this the result of 1 hour and 20 minutes stacked.
“The Gumball Globular contains about 200,000 stars. In 2006, M12 was discovered to contain a surprisingly low number of low mass stars. Scientists believe that these stars were stripped from M12 by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way Galaxy and that the cluster lost four times as many members as it still has over its lifetime. In other words, as the cluster’s orbit took it through the denser regions of the Milky Way plane, M12 ejected about a million stars into the galaxy’s halo. This explains why there are hardly any M-class (red) dwarfs in the cluster. It will take another 4.5 billion years before M12 dissociates completely.”
