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Old 21-05-2020, 10:25 PM
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The Sombrero Galaxy

A mix of 14+ hours of L and 5 hours RGB from under light polluted Adelaide suburban skies and 2+ hours of L from a dark sky (though with poor seeing) I managed to get out under last weekend as lockdown restrictions/guidelines are easing :-)

Full resolution available on Astrobin for the crop and full field.

I've always thought the starfield around M104 was fairly boring but in the full frame shot there's that nice coloured trio at the top right. At that scale, the galaxy is a bit lost maybe though.

And I was curious as to the apparent concentration of "stars" around the galaxy and wondering if they were globular clusters. Turns out a lot of them are - Rolf Olsen has done some dedicated work identifying them in one of his images here which is rather cool!
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