A beautiful clear and cold (-3 deg C) out at Wallaroo last night so I had a great evening of astro endeavours, including imaging
and observing with my mate
Attila, we had great fun and pulled an allnighter and everything outside was covered with ice at pack up time...ahhh that's the life
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Started on a new project then later in the night and at Attila's request, grabbed this relative quicky
Overshadowed by its gigantic brethren, the mighty Omega Centauri just 5deg away, the much smaller and fainter NGC 5286 in Centaurus makes a beautiful pairing with a bright (but completely unrelated) K-M class star and because of this, NGC 5286 is one of my favourite globular clusters to look at through a telescope....and I did while imaging it
it's such a jewel like scene.
Taming a bright star so near a subject is always a challenge..but I think I pulled it off? Also worth mentioning is that under a high contrast stretch the whole field is covered by a web of very faint galactic cirrus dust, similar to what we see near Omega Centauri in deep images, so perhaps a longer exposure at some stage is worth a thought..?
NGC 5286