47 Tuc Crop/Reprocess

[TrevorW]

Taken earlier this year using my SV80ED at a dark site cropped from the original

Cheers

cloudy and hot all week here so I didn't know what else to do

as a comparison the second image was an APOD back in 2001 taken with a 1.5m telescope in Chile link

http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010422.html

Just goes to show what can be acheived with modest equipment and great software these days

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Nice! Like yours better than the APOD! Great colours and sharp as anything! I am yet to even attempt star clusters! What camera and what FL?

[TrevorW]

Paul it's with the 350d Canon, focal length f7 with the SV80ED cropped and only 11 minutes data all subs captured in JPEG no darks or flats unguided, processed in CS3

[StarGazing (Alex)]

Fantastic image Trevor ........ I love observing that cluster, my favourite to be honest. I spend hours looking at it.

Keep up the great work. Alex.

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Lovely clear image. Looks like you also picked a couple of other smaller clusters, one on either side. Any idea what they are?

[TrevorW]

No sorry Michael someone else might know heres another APOD done in 2008 showing this globular its by Tom Davis, and well worth looking at

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Originally Posted by michaellxv

Looks like you also picked a couple of other smaller clusters, one on either side. Any idea what they are?

One is NGC121 a globular belonging to the SMC. The other is a galaxy NGC292.

Tom

[Tom Davis (Tom)]

Great job Trevor! Lovely glob!

Tom

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice clean image Trevor.

Interesting comparison.

[TrevorW]

Thanks Tom and Dougie