Object	NGC 104- 47 Tucanae
Info	47 Tucanae is a large and brilliant globular cluster the size of the full moon. It can be seen by the naked eye as a fuzzy 4th- mag. blob close to the Small Megellanic cloud. On earlier star charts, it was catalogued as a star, hence its star's designation.  It is second only to Omega Centauri in size and brightness. It is among the closest globulars to us @ 15,000 light years away.
Date	19 / 8/ 06
Location	BayTop Observatory- Streaky Bay South Australia
Instrument	Orion 80ED refractor working @ f7.5/ 600 FL               2.3 arcsec/pixel
Mount	Celestron CI700 controlled by a Mel Bartels Goto Control System with Vexta PK264m-01b motors with a pulley and belt system
Camera (CCD)	Starlight Xpress HX916 monochrome CCD with Atik manual filter wheel.
Exposures	L: 15' R:5' G:5' B:5'  (30 sec sub exposures all unbinned)     No dark frames removed.
Guiding	none
Filters	Astronomik typeII clr  RGB filter set
Notes/ Conditions	Reasonable weather conditions. Seeing average. Transparency poor- average. This object was rather low @ 32 degs when I started the lum exposures. Certainly will redo this object when it's better situated in the coming months. Had gradients to remove. Image reduced to 85% of original.