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jenchris
11-08-2011, 02:05 PM
I was looking for that comet last week and this was on the edge of the trees so I think the comet was hidden.
There's only two 3 min subs here so I reckon it looks quite well.
If anyone can confirm that, as my text book pics of it are very small

jjjnettie
11-08-2011, 05:13 PM
This is a crop of M15 from my comet image last week.
Your image is missing those brighter stars close by.

jenchris
11-08-2011, 05:45 PM
Ah right thanks JJJ
I wonder what it is then!!!

astroron
11-08-2011, 06:32 PM
Jen the only other bright GC close by that position is M2 in Aquarius.
http://www.astrokev.com/2010/10/21/a-tale-of-three-globulars-messier-2-messier-13-and-messier-15/
Check this out it looks like your picture
You can compare it to M15
Cheers:thumbsup:

p1taylor
11-08-2011, 07:58 PM
Sorry it dos not look lick M15 to me, it may be NGC 7006 or NGC 6934 both are near by.

peter

mithrandir
11-08-2011, 08:48 PM
astrometry.net can't solve it. Is that the full frame? At F/10 a LX90+450d should give about 37x25 arcmin.

It does look a bit more like the DSS image of M2 than M15, but that is from 1982 and 29 years of proper motion will have affected the fields stars.

Andrew

gregbradley
11-08-2011, 11:59 PM
Nicely done. Resolved the stars to the core.

I tried imaging it the other day but I think the comet had already moved out of the frame.

Greg.

multiweb
13-08-2011, 08:57 AM
Very nicely resolved. :thumbsup: