Beautiful open cluster NGC 6124 in Scorpius, located 18,600 light years away. First time I've imaged this. What a nice cluster it is with fingers of dark nebula running through it. Takes a lot of time to image this one, unlike M7. Taken over 3 nights.
222 x 30 sec subs, 8" F4 Newtonian, Baader MPCC MKIII, Heq5 Pro unguided, Pentax K-5. Bigger at Astrobin.
http://astrob.in/173579/0/
Not sure why I imaged this. Something to kill time between other targets? NGC5897, discovered by William Herschel in 1784 in his 19-inch f/13, this small, obscure globular cluster is one of the few deep sky objects of note in the constellation Libra. Herschel recorded NGC 5897 as "a very close, compressed cluster of stars 8' or 9' in diameter, extremely rich, of an irregular round figure, a little extended. The stars are so small as hardly to be visible, and so accumulated in the middle as to look nebulous." 19" F13!
120 x 30 seconds with the usual setup.
Astrobin. --->
http://astrob.in/174201/0/
I think galaxies near bright stars are cute. This galaxy is NGC5102 near a bright star in Centaurus. It lies almost half way between M83 and Centaurus A. Discovered by William Herschel in 1835, at a distance of 12 - 13 million light years.
Taken over two nights between clouds. 112 x 30 seconds. 8" F4 Newtonian, Baader MPCC MKIII, HEQ5 Pro unguided, Pentax K-5.
Full frame at Astrobin.
http://astrob.in/173896/0/
lovely colours and detail.
