Nice and clear last night. Took some more images out the window. This is globular cluster NGC6752. There are two cute little little galaxies in the field right at the edge of the frame. IC4819 is edge on and IC4830 is more face on. Can't find a lot of info on these two.
From Wiki... "NGC 6752 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pavo. It is the third brightest in the sky, after 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, and is best seen from June to October. The cluster lies around 13,000 light years distant and is one of the closer globular clusters to Earth. It also lies 17,000 light years away from the galactic centre. It holds over 100 thousand stars in a sphere about 100 light-years in diameter and has been calculated to be 11.78 billion years old."
Bintel 8" F4 Newtonian, Baader MPCC MKIII, Heq5 pro unguided, 98 x 30 seconds, Pentax K-5.
Been a few of these lately and this is a nice one - very nice star colour in particular. Some background colour noise which wouldn't be hard to get rid of.
Kevin that is a cracker mate. Nicely processed and loving the star colours. As a point of interest when I was looking at the full size astrobin image I noticed not just the two you mentioned but quite a few other background galaxies. Can't remember if you have PI, but anyway it has a script to mark out the objects in an image, so I hope you don't mind I downloaded a copy and ran the script to see how many there were. The result is attached and you do have quite a few. I obviously had to reduce it to post here but I can email you the original size one if you want it, (after all it is your image). I find it interesting to do this to my own images, so I thought you might too.
That is a very good result Kevin, in particular when considering it was taken out of dinning room window
Next challenge - take an equally good photo out of car's window on the way to work
Dunno about that. But to beat the cloud it would be good to take a high flying jet above the clouds one night.
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Originally Posted by Rex
Kevin that is a cracker mate. Nicely processed and loving the star colours. As a point of interest when I was looking at the full size astrobin image I noticed not just the two you mentioned but quite a few other background galaxies. Can't remember if you have PI, but anyway it has a script to mark out the objects in an image, so I hope you don't mind I downloaded a copy and ran the script to see how many there were. The result is attached and you do have quite a few. I obviously had to reduce it to post here but I can email you the original size one if you want it, (after all it is your image). I find it interesting to do this to my own images, so I thought you might too.
Thanks Rex. Yeah I realised there were more galaxies in the field, but just wanted to highlight the two brightest since they showed a little bit of structure and shape to them.
and always cool to see distant galaxies in the background of a glob image.
...yeah, great idea Kevin 
