Home sick with a bad cold
and for some reason felt like looking at an image of Omega Centauri
.... so I decided to rework some data I collected way back in early 2013, when the big FLI 16803 was last on the AG12.
Remarkably, this is only 34min worth of data...so, probably worth going back for some more sometime huh?
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Anyway...when you consider this, still pretty deep frame, is almost 2 deg on the side you can appreciate the enormous amount of sky this ball of stars takes up and equates to an area several times that off the full moon!
Quite a number of distant background galaxies can be found peeking through between the millions of foreground Milky Way stars and some very faint Milky Way Cirrus dust can be seen across the lower half of the frame too.
Warning - umpteen 1000's of tiny stars, so if you have astigmatism try squinting or look closely, better still, make sure you have your glasses on
Omega the Great
To get a better idea of the grandure of the overall scene, I actually recommend
shrinking the image to 50% in your browser
Mike