Clusters on the LMC bar

[andyc (Andy)]

Clouds of stars, rich clusters and wisps of pinkish emission nebula are scattered across the field, looking towards the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

I took the frames for this a while ago in good conditions, but erred in not checking my scope and many frames were badly out of focus . I rescued the best of the frames (17/72) and stacked them anyway - while it's far from the sharpest image I've taken, still a nice scene of an area imaged a little less often.


A larger view is worth a look here, much more detail than the one compressed for IIS.

A larger view of the inset around NGC1910 is here

17 x 5 minutes, ISO800, EOS 60D, darks, flats and bias subtracted. 200mm f/5 Newtonian on HEQ5 pro mount, OAG & StarShoot Autoguider. Stacked and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Quite a nice shot! It reminds me of a wide field (200mm) with so many stars

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Quite good Andy, a veritable cluster mine field

Nice

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Love the high res versions, Andy!

[blink138 (Pat)]

is the glob ours or theirs?
pat

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 for the highres. Very nice field.

[andyc (Andy)]

Aw thanks guys! Glad you llike it, a rescue job after seeing so many subs with stars like footballs.

Originally Posted by blink138

is the glob ours or theirs?
pat

Hi Pat, I think the glob ( the yellowish ngc1916) is part of the LMC, and not a foreground object associated with the Milky Way. The scale is about right (tough to resolve) and ESO put it at an LMC-ish 170000 light-years away.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

A great result. You could have lots of fun labelling some of the named structures. Good detective work on the globular.

[deeplook (Markus)]

Great, Andy!
So many different objects in one FOV, very nice!

Markus