Despite strong breezes I managed to grab a short exposure of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, complete with SN2012fr
My scope is in the
unprotected open at the moment soooo I am at the mercy of any wind, aaand Sunday night had some
...eventually the kit will be under a Sirius Dome but until then...ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Anyway the final image is quite deep regardless but given that it has been softened considerably by the strong breezes there is still sufficient detail to pick out 100's of background galaxies
Have a surf around the full frame image
Fornax Galaxy Cluster 50% full res
Take a look at the
Close up of SN2012fr (100% res crop)
Here is the
massive heart of the Fornax Cluster
and a
Deep Negative image showing all the faint stuff lying in the area, NGC 1399, near the bottom, is absolutely enormous!
What's interesting is that the supernova is about as bright as some of the brightest Milky Way foreground stars near NGC 1365, each of which are some 60 Million light years closer!...that makes SN2012fr rather a bright object....
Was going to go longer and deeper buuut meeeah..got bored, other things to image, glad I managed to grab the supernova though
MIke