Marvel at the high resolution I reached

[jones]

Hello!

I have imaged the Beehive cluster, M44, doing 118x60" shots with the 50mm lens, uncalibrated, processed with Iris and PS:

I should've taken darks, but the result is not too shabby. Here's a crop:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/siovene/5501943511/sizes/l/

The most amazing thing, there's a tiny galaxy right behind M44,magnitude 15.2. Here's the magnification:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/siovene/5505711124/sizes/l/

Just marvel at the high resolution reached with a simple 50mm lens! You can resolve individual stars of that galaxy! :D

Here's the galaxy as it appears in the DSS2 survey: click here. (http://www.sky-map.org/?ra=8.694667&de=18.860000000000003&zoom=11&show_grid=1&show_constellation_lines=1&show_constellation_boundaries=1&show_const_names=0&show_galaxies=1&show_box=1&box_ra=8.694667&box_de=18.86&box_width=5.0128896&box_height=5.0128896&box_var_size=1&img_source=DSS)

Greetings from Winterland,
Salva.

[Screwdriverone]

Hi Salva,

Not that I doubt you, but those pics are only 100x100 pixels across and way too small to see anything.

Any chance you can see if you can post an attachment to this website of say a 200kb Jpeg instead?

I think I can see what you mean but I just cant get that close with 100x100....

Cheers

Chris

[jones]

Thanks Chris, something went wrong obviously :) I have now fixed the URLs.

[Screwdriverone]

Ahh that's better,

Pretty cool shot in the first link, beautiful star colours and you are right, almost has a 3D feel to it.

Lovely field of view and well captured.

One small suggestion, make a composite of the first picture and then put a box around the cropped area and put the crop to the side of the main one to show where you have blown up the galaxy bit. Its a bit hard to figure out where you mean on that second one alone.

Great work though, very pretty cluster and as I said, lovely star colours, plenty of red giants or supergiants scattered around.

Thanks for posting, very enjoyable.

Cheers

Chris

[jjjnettie]

Beaut Shot!
Love the star colours.