The Southern Pleiades (IC 2602) in Carina

[Octane]

Hi all,

Got this beautiful cluster after imaging the Seagull Nebula.

Read and view here (http://members.optusnet.com.au/mrozycka/Magellan_Observatory/Magellan_Observatory_20070121_South ern_Pleiades.html).

Warning: file is approximately 1.63 MB in size.

As always, comments and critique welcome.

Regards,
H

[Diamond Rose]

Cool pic of one of my fav clusters.

The richness of the starfield is amazing, but I find it distracts from the cluster somewhat. Overall, great pic, though.

~ Bruce

[CoombellKid]

Pitty I'm on bush dialup, anychance you can post a compressed version for here?

regards,CS

[Rodstar]

I love that object, H. I have been looking at it quite a bit recently while I have been limited only to using the 80ED. As Bruce commented, the star field is something else! In one way, hard to see the forest for the trees!

[jjjnettie]

Ditto here as well. I average between 22 and 28 kbps. :(

[ballaratdragons]

WoW! Humayun, I never realised there are THAT MANY stars behind the Sthn Pleiades :eyepop:

My 12" shows lots, but that is LOT'S!

Excellent shot :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Ric]

Took a while to download but well worth it, fantastic image Humayun. What a rich starfield in that area.

Cheers

[ballaratdragons]

I really like the look of that little orange star.

The one that is 4,512,903 stars in from the left and 1,689,421 up from the bottom

:lol:

[Ric]

I must have missed that one Ken, I'll have another look :lol:

Cheers :D

[ballaratdragons]

Just next to the little yellowish one, Ric. :thumbsup:

I am still looking at Humayuns pic amazed by all the stars!!!!! I'm gonna have to get my 12" back on that cluster and see if I can pick up more of these background stars. Photography shows up more than our eye can see, but I'm gonna look anyway.

[astroron]

Great Shot, as Carl Sagen is reputed to have said Billions and Billions of stars:eyepop:

[atalas]

Nice work again H !

[EzyStyles]

veryyy nicee H!

[acropolite]

Lovely Image Humayan. :thumbsup:

[rogerg]

Very nice shot. The thing I particularly like about it is the good colour balance - the contrast in colour that is visible.
:thumbsup:

[Octane]

Bruce,

Thanks! I can understand what you're saying, but, I think I like it like that, just puts it all into perspective, somewhat.



Coombellkid,

I'll see if I can put up a low resolution image.



Rod,

It's a beauty, innit.

Once I've got my new equipment, I'll image it through the ED80 and see how it turns out.



jjjnettie,

As mentioned earlier, I'll put up a low resolution image, soon.



Ken,

Cheers. :)



Ric,

Thanks, mate. It's a gorgeous region of the sky.



Haha!



astroron,

Thanks!



Louie,

Cheers, mate. :)



Eric,

Thanks!



Phil,

Cheers. :)



Roger,

Thanks for the compliment, mate. Glad you liked it.

Regards,
Humayun

[tornado33]

Gee those 1 hour in total shots sure go nice and deep. Well done again.
Scott

[DobDobDob]

Hi great shot, I was out that night also, in fact from Sydney it was the last good night we have had since then. Tonight looks promising Sat 3rd, keep your fingers crossed.

As a newbie I would like to offer these obvious observation as a result from viewing your image and that is this: taking a multi dimensional view and compressing it into just two dimensions (width and height), it rams home the point - to me anyway - that we have the sky all wrong, well not wrong but from our perspective only.

If we were observing the same coordinates from another galaxy it would look completely different, I know you guys all know this, but to me it is very revealing of how the whole thing hangs together. When seeing two stars say Sirius and Canopas they look the same magnitude to us here on earth, but I have read that Canopas is much larger but further away, thus they look the same size. This is amazing stuff for a newbie like me.

The other obvious point is that the constellations as we tend to draw them and name them are actually only that way from our perspective, could we navigate back home if we suddenly ended up on the other side of the universe, that is if there was a side, perhaps position is a better word.

This brings me to the part I have a little trouble with but trust will get easier as I clock up more hours, the RA and Dec coordinating system, I assume that the principles would work regardless of where in the universe you were assuming you could locate either of the celestial poles, is this right?

[Octane]

Hi Scott,

Thanks!



tailwag,

Cheers!

Regards,
Humayun