Five Favourite Globular Clusters

[glenc]

What are your Five Favourite Globular Clusters

Here are 117 GC images to help you decide.
https://picasaweb.google.com/110048826379679252146/GlobularClusters?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTv 9cm0msHbSQ#
Fields are all 28' except NGC5139.
There are 114 NGC GC including 7 in the LMC.

[Robh]

Hi Glen,

First two are easy:
omega Centauri
47 Tuc

After that, maybe ...
M5 in Serpens
M13 in Hercules
M15 in Pegasus

Regards, Rob

[mental4astro]

These are my five. The first four are celestial jewels, all four being naked eye objects. All are very distinct in their appearance, having their own signature quirks and stellar chains:

Omega Centauri
47 Tuc
NGC 6752 in Pavo
NGC 2808 in Carina

The fifth is the complete opposite to the others. It is small, faint, very distant and a bugger to make out from the massive star field that is M7 that it happens to be in the same line of sight with. I love chasing this one down as I also use it as a gauge on current seeing conditions. It resists resolution to all but larger apertures visually, and then it demands good conditions to make out just a handful of stars. This tiny GC is one of my all time favourite objects, mainly due to where it sits and the half dozen other objects that are also in the same line of sight at M7:

NGC 6453

I'm managed to sketch the first three noted. I'm hoping to sketch the other two next year.

[glenc]

Thanks Rob and Alex.

[astroron]

I can't access that site:shrug:
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Larryp]

Hi Ron-I cannot access the site using Internet Explorer, but I can on Google Chrome

[astroron]

Thanks Laurie,
I use firefox.
Cheers:thumbsup:

[glenc]

Ron this works with Firefox.
https://picasaweb.google.com/110048826379679252146/GlobularClusters?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTv 9cm0msHbSQ#

[astroron]

Thanks Glen,but not according to this
500 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

(http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=107479&hl=en_US)Cheers:thumbsup:
PS I don't know what it means mind you?

[glenc]

What are your 5 best GCs Ron?

[astroron]

Cant go past the usual suspects Glen.

NGC 5139 (Omega Centauri)
NGC 104 (47 Tuc)
NGC 6656 (M22)
NGC 6752
NGC 2808.
Cheers:thumbsup:
It seems I have to install Picasa on my machine to view that file .

[bigjoe]

Glen hi!
My favorites apart from the usual two suspects, Omega Centauris and TUC 47 ARE : NGC 6752, M22, M5, M15, M55, in no particular order.

Cheers bigjoe.

[glenc]

So far we have omega Cen and 47 Tuc - 4 votes each
N6752 - 3 votes
M5, M15, M22 and N2808 - 2 votes each
M13, N6543 and M55 - 1 each

Please add your five favourites to the OC, nebula and PN threads, if you have not done so.
Thanks Glen

[Judith]

Begs the question - what are your favorites Glen?

Judith

[glenc]

I don't want to bias things, but I will include mine when I do a summary of OC, GC, nebula, PN and galaxies.
Can't do that till Judith adds her favourites!

[Jon]

Omega Centauri
47 Tuc
M55
NGC 2808
NGC 6717

[Judith]

Can't go past Omega Centauri and 47 Tuc. The best in the sky!
Judith

[ausastronomer]

I would probably agree with the exact 5 Ron has selected.

One that I really like which has not been mentioned by anyone is NGC 6397 in Ara. I could easily include it in my top five. If I was to do so I would probably drop out NGC 2808. They are very different, but both excellent globulars. On top of that, NGC 6397 has quite a bit of scientific significance. It is the 2nd closest globular to us (M4 being the closest), it has also undergone a core collapse and contains some of the hottest and most luminous stars of any globular cluster. Because of this and its close proximity, NGC 6397 contains the individual brightest stars of any globular cluster.

Cheers,
John B

[astroron]

John, I did have thoughts of NGC 6397 as it is as you say a beautiful cluster, but NGC 2808 won out as it was the first GC that I saw in my 60mm refactor way back in 1986,and I thought I had spotted a comet,
I was so excited,till I found out what it was.
Still a must observation when it is in my observing range.:)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[mithrandir]

Ron, it's defined in rfc2616 and in particular http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.5.1 but that doesn't say much more than the server knows something is broken.

Glen's link below works in Safari and in Chrome.

[Allan]

NGC 104 - 47 Tuc
NGC 5139 - Omega Centauri
M22
M4
M5

[Gem]

NGC 6397
NGC 104
M 22
Omega Cen
NGC 6752

[glenc]

Please list your 10 favourite galaxies if you have not already done so. Thanks Glen
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=114308

[Suzy]

Hi John, NGC 6397 is my favourite GC next to 47Tuc & Omega Centauri!
I was going to include it in my list (Glen, I hope I'm not too late?) and then I saw your post- Wow!
I had no idea all this activity was on inside it. :eyepop:

Here are my obs notes on it:
"Very impressive!!! Large condensed core not resolved, but just outside the core are many loose, easy to resolve stars and outer stars are scattered as if GC has exploded. Bright."


MY LIST:
47Tuc (NGC 104)
NGC 5139 (Omega Centauri)
NGC 6397 (in Ara)
M4 (I love the bar structure & has a lot going on inside it)
NGC 6752 (in Pavo)


Why NGC 6752?
My obs notes:
"One of the prettiest GC's I've seen! Very bright, granulated bright core with bright stars sprayed out. Good size. Bright star to the right. Heavier concentration north of GC. South of GC are two trails of stars. Elongated south. 120x magnification used."

[glenc]

Thanks Suzy, you are not too late.

[Tropo-Bob]

5 favourite Globulars:
Well Omega Centauri and 47 Tuc pick themselves. These are the Celestial equivalents of beautiful sunsets over a calm body of water. A glimpse of either of these reinvigorates my astronomical soul.
NGC 6441 is small faint globular next to G Scorpii. It gives me a sense of the vastness of our galaxy. Here in a bright star, aprox 100 light years away, shining some 100 times more brightly than the globular, which itself contains tens of thousands of stars.
Then over to Sagittarius for NGC 6558 & 6559. These two globulars are in the same field of view, which is rather unusual. I have shown these to countless people and most seem impressed. If I show them a ‘solo’ globular of similar brightness, they are often far less enthusiastic. Some other close, faint globulars can also be found near the Lagoon Nebula.

[cometcatcher]

Omega C
47 Tuc
M4
M13
M22

[Zubenel]

The King
The Queen
The Starfish
Djorgovski 3 An amazing part of the sky . This Glob seem to shine sooo much brighter than listed due to it's contrast with The Ink Spot.And inside a galactic tunnel to boot !!! :thumbsup: :)
NGC 6397

[glenc]

I plan to combine all this information next week.
See http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=114641 (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=114641)

[glenc]

My 5 favourite globulars are:
47 Tuc
N2808
omega Cen
M5
N6752

[glenc]

Thank you everyone for participating. The results are summarised here.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...d.php?t=114641 (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=114641)