Thanks everyone!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Excellent examination there Andy, enjoyed it  I observed Djorgovski 2 (and the others there) through Alexander Massey's 17.5" Dob at SPSP using a nice wid-ish field eyepiece, really a beautiful field under the transparent and steady perfectly dark skies we enjoyed this year
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That would've been quite something. Nothing quite like the view through a good big scope under a very clear dark sky
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Awesome. Love those Milkyway shots when the background is just so dense with stars you can't even see the sky. |
Yep, it's so different from galaxy views, or even most other Milky Way shots. But it kinda makes colour calibration in PixInsight tricky - there's no black background to use!
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Originally Posted by billdan
Awesome Andy, the stars are so dense they do look like sand.
Tell me how close to the black hole were you ( SagA ?).
Cheers
Bill
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Bill, Sgr A* is just 4 degrees away, to the left (west) of this view. If some of these stars really lie at a comparable distance from us as the galactic centre, as indicated in the Bica paper (my feeling is that the uncertainties might lean to the stars being a little nearer us) then they might be as little as 1750 light-years from Sgr A*. They're probably rather further, by virtue of not being the same distance from us as the black hole though!