Also known as NGC 2419, it is a globular cluster near the constellation of Lynxs. At magnitude 9 it is not visible to the naked eye.

I am taking pictures of less flamboyant and less popular objects because they’re interesting. It is called Tramp because it was once considered not part of the Milky Way and an intergalactic wanderer. It is intrinsically brighter than other globular clusters but further away. The Milky Way is considered 100,000 light years across. NGC 2419 is dim because it’s 300,000 light years away from Earth. NGC 2419 takes a billion years to rotate around the Milky Way whereas the Earth and Sun take 225,000 years.

It is the object to the left of the bright stars in the center of the frame.

North (toward Polaris) is up in the photo. The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color camera) on a TEC 140 telescope in the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3).

10 15 second sub-frames were used and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = two minute 30 seconds photo. Binned 2X2. Unguided, no darks or flats. Processed in Photoshop (CS5).

Location in the night sky of the photo: