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Old 18-08-2015, 01:37 AM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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M22 Stars Galore!

Last night wasn't the best conditions, a strong breeze, just enough forming and passing cloud (all night) to reek havoc, particularly with the guide star (heard the lost guide star alarm go off plenty of times through the night ) and to top it off, the seeing was poor all night too ...oh well, I guess I did have three good nights up to this, so can't complain.

So I decided to image something bright and that at least appeared to be sitting in a lasting cloud hole too.

The literature seems to vary but with a VMag of about 5.2, M22 appears to be the skies 3rd brightest glob after Omega Cen and 47 Tuc and it sits in a rich Milky Way star field, so makes for a fine scene of thousands of stars.

The data wasn't the best due to the conditions but I did my best

M22 lost in the stars

Planetary Nebula GJJC1 deep in M22

Mike
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