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Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nice shot Steven. I see you've picked up VVV CL001 too at the top right.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve.
I kept an eye out for your globular. It's easy to spot knowing where to look. I doubt I would have noticed it otherwise, as it doesn't exactly leap out at you.

Originally Posted by dvj

Wow, nice one! first ever image i've seen of this.

Thanks John.

Originally Posted by RickS

What a cute little critter!

Interesting you should comment about it's size Rick. The globular has a reported apparent diameter of 18.8 arcminutes yet it appears much smaller in the image which is presented at 80% resolution.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Great image of this faint globular, and you bagged Steve's cluster too, nice work!
So is this a NIR-RGB image?

Thanks Rolf.
It is a NIR-RGB image. While the star colours are preserved the globular itself turned out to looking almost monochrome. I had to select the globular and stretch out the red channel level in Photoshop to indicate the considerable absorption the object exhibits.

Originally Posted by davewaldo

Very cool image. I love these little know objects.

Can anyone else see a faint blue line almost through the middle? Satellite in the blue channel?

Thanks Dave.
It is a satellite trail in one of the 10 minute B exposures. I thought it was dim enough not to be noticeable. I might go back and sigma combine the colour images to get rid of the trail.

Clear skies

Steven