RC-GN 1060 galaxy cluster

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Hi All,

This cluster of galaxies is located in Hydra, These are my favorite types of imaging.

Planewave cdk 12.5 @f8
SBIG STL11000
Paramount ME
Internal guide chip guiding.
Lum: 1x1 20min exposures for 10hrs.
RGB: 2x2 10min exposures 3 hrs each filter for 9hrs total.
19hrs total

Full resolution here:
http://astrob.in/full/98100/0/

Comments and constructive criticism most welcome.

Thanks for looking

Josh

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

now that is something special. could gaze at all those little galaxies for ages. fantastic work Joshua!

[pluto (Hugh)]

Wow that's an amazing image, great work

[Asterix2020 (Paul)]

That's a great image. I love the small galaxy left of the bright lower orange star - it looks like a spiral ploughing straight into another galaxy.

[DavidNg (David)]

Fantastic group of galaxies Joshua. The 2 bright stars are kind of distracting your galaxies, I wish there is a way to cut down their halo, brightness? Just my taste of course. Cheers David

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Spectacular image Josh.

You seem to be well in control of the star shape issue as well - what did you do to fix it?

[stevous67 (Steve M)]

That's very nice data Josh. It's an amazing section of sky; well done with the framing.

Those super bright yellow stars are certainly extremely bright [4.8mag + 6.8mag], and I think the field looks very interesting, with lots to look at indeed. It's no doubt a tough target, with those close in galaxies captured being all dimmer than -12mag, some I can see dimmer than -15mag to -16mag. It's a hard combination of bright stars with very dim galaxies!

Great Effort!
Steve

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice, Joshua! That's a lovely collection of galaxies.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

My favourite galaxy cluster, and a great image of it! Very nice work

[Octane (Humayun)]

Holy wow! Chill down spine.

Awesome, man.

H

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

now that is something special. could gaze at all those little galaxies for ages. fantastic work Joshua!

Thanks Russell, me to

Originally Posted by pluto

Wow that's an amazing image, great work

Thanks Hugh.

Originally Posted by Asterix2020

That's a great image. I love the small galaxy left of the bright lower orange star - it looks like a spiral ploughing straight into another galaxy.

Thankyou Paul, I found a hubble image of that galaxy, Image bellow

Originally Posted by DavidNg

Fantastic group of galaxies Joshua. The 2 bright stars are kind of distracting your galaxies, I wish there is a way to cut down their halo, brightness? Just my taste of course. Cheers David

Thanks David, they are very bright.

Originally Posted by stevous67

That's very nice data Josh. It's an amazing section of sky; well done with the framing.

Those super bright yellow stars are certainly extremely bright [4.8mag + 6.8mag], and I think the field looks very interesting, with lots to look at indeed. It's no doubt a tough target, with those close in galaxies captured being all dimmer than -12mag, some I can see dimmer than -15mag to -16mag. It's a hard combination of bright stars with very dim galaxies!

Great Effort!
Steve

Thanks Steve, tough no doubt its certainly an image to spend some time in.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Joshua! That's a lovely collection of galaxies.

Quite beautiful hey Steve, thankyou.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

My favourite galaxy cluster, and a great image of it! Very nice work

Thankyou Rolf.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Holy smoke! Looks like a Hubble deep field.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Spectacular image Josh.

You seem to be well in control of the star shape issue as well - what did you do to fix it?

Thanks Ray, star shapes are all good now, scope just needed something I think this did it.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Holy wow! Chill down spine.

Awesome, man.

H

Thanks H, It is one of those kind of fields.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Holy smoke! Looks like a Hubble deep field.

Love em, Thank Kevin.

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Now that's fantastic work Joshua! Just beautiful!

Cheers

Steve

[batema (Mark)]

Beautiful image Josh and fantastic looking set up.

Mark

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Joshua, that is superb.

[AstroJason (Jason)]

Amazing image Joshua, really top shelf stuff that!

[Peter Ward]

A very slick image.

You've done well

[Rod771 (Rod)]

That's fantastic Joshua , Well done