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andyc
12-05-2016, 08:39 PM
Clouds of stars, rich clusters and wisps of pinkish emission nebula are scattered across the field, looking towards the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

I took the frames for this a while ago in good conditions, but erred in not checking my scope and many frames were badly out of focus :ashamed:. I rescued the best of the frames (17/72) and stacked them anyway - while it's far from the sharpest image I've taken, still a nice scene of an area imaged a little less often.


A larger view is worth a look here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/163200205), much more detail than the one compressed for IIS.

A larger view of the inset around NGC1910 is here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/163200206)

17 x 5 minutes, ISO800, EOS 60D, darks, flats and bias subtracted. 200mm f/5 Newtonian on HEQ5 pro mount, OAG & StarShoot Autoguider. Stacked and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.

Atmos
12-05-2016, 08:55 PM
Quite a nice shot! It reminds me of a wide field (200mm) with so many stars :)

strongmanmike
12-05-2016, 09:14 PM
Quite good Andy, a veritable cluster mine field :eyepop:

Nice

Mike

RickS
12-05-2016, 09:30 PM
Love the high res versions, Andy!

blink138
13-05-2016, 12:32 AM
is the glob ours or theirs?
pat

multiweb
13-05-2016, 07:32 AM
+1 for the highres. Very nice field. :thumbsup:

andyc
13-05-2016, 07:42 AM
Aw thanks guys! Glad you llike it, a rescue job after seeing so many subs with stars like footballs.

Hi Pat, I think the glob ( the yellowish ngc1916) is part of the LMC, and not a foreground object associated with the Milky Way. The scale is about right (tough to resolve) and ESO put it at an LMC-ish 170000 light-years away (https://www.eso.org/public/australia/images/eso9931f/).

Placidus
13-05-2016, 09:29 PM
A great result. You could have lots of fun labelling some of the named structures. Good detective work on the globular.

deeplook
16-05-2016, 08:18 AM
Great, Andy!
So many different objects in one FOV, very nice!

Markus