Abell 1060 Hydra Galaxy Cluster

strongmanmike (Michael) · #1 02-01-2011, 05:26 PM

This was a last fill in effort before dawn this morning after a three day marathon on something else (coming soon

)

This is a magnificent galaxy cluster about 165 million Ltyrs away showing 100's of members across the huge 1.6deg X 1.6deg field here.

For the thrill seakers (Marcus

): Full Size Full Res image (6meg)

For a quicker look (600k): Close up of the central gluster members

A close up of the cool overlapping galaxies NGC 3314 only 2.3' 1.7' in size

Only 90min Luminance so far so hopefully I will get to add more plus the colour soon

Mike

multiweb (Marc) · #2 02-01-2011, 05:44 PM

Loads of galaxies in this field. Pretty cool.

What's with the big flares at 2 o'clock on the brightest stars? It appears in many of your latest shots. Not the older stuff though.

h0ughy (David) · #3 02-01-2011, 07:23 PM

All i see are white dots and fuzzy white dots and a satellite trail

Fantastic field of view Mr Sidionio

Brought a smile on the dial

SkyViking (Rolf) · #4 02-01-2011, 08:19 PM

Oh, my favorite galaxy cluster! The full size frame is fantastic Mike, can't wait to see it in colour! It looks very promising, I hope you get to add the colour soon.
I did this one with the ToUCam a couple of years ago and I'll definitely be homing in on it again once I get a bigger CCD. This cluster is so rich and diverse, and beautifully framed between the bright stars - a real gem. I wonder why it's not imaged more often.

Hagar (Doug) · #5 02-01-2011, 08:41 PM

Now thats a gagle of galaxies. Loads and loads of them. Beautifully resolved Mike. Lots have very nice identifiable detail.

Great shot Mike. (NEW DATA?)

Fabiomax (Fabiomassimo) · #6 02-01-2011, 10:06 PM

Really it is a travel trought the space......I hope you can post colours as well for this amazing picture!
Cheers,
Fabiomax

TrevorW · #7 02-01-2011, 10:44 PM

Mike you need a bigger scope you could probably man handle a HST

nice comparison

batema (Mark) · #8 02-01-2011, 11:27 PM

That is an amazing amount of galaxies. Can't wait to see this with colour and your other photo.

Mark

Stevec35 (Steve) · #9 03-01-2011, 12:11 AM

Excellent as always Mike. The star flares are slightly off putting but the details is great.

Cheers

Steve

rogerg (Roger) · #10 03-01-2011, 12:38 AM

Spectacular, great to see a shot like this

astroron (Ron) · #11 03-01-2011, 12:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Excellent as always Mike. The star flares are slightly off putting but the details is great.

Cheers

Steve

AS Above, but what a lot of galaxies

I would love to see What you would you get with more aperture

zipdrive (Dave) · #12 03-01-2011, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

This was a last fill in effort before dawn this morning after a three day marathon on something else (coming soon

)

I wanna see this "something else" NOW!! can't wait

Jutscher (Sam) · #13 03-01-2011, 12:55 AM

That image just keeps going, the longer you look, the more you find, in fact I keep expecting to find Walley.

A beautiful image, probably done at 1/100000th the cost of HDST, you might even create a new conspiracy theory that Hubble doesnt really exist.

Nicely done.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #14 03-01-2011, 07:31 AM

Thanks everyone

I will get the colour next session to complete the vista, it was truly a case of ..hmm? what's up there now and high at 3am

....ah huh! the seeing wasn't too bad either so I went for the little bunch of distant blighters

The star flares..

..still haven't tracked that one down yet, coming from somewhere in the imaging train, most likely something is sticking in to or providing some sort of incident reflective surface in the light path somewhere.... I've just got used to them now. I guess you poor RC and Newtonian users have to put up with it

...besides they grow on ya

...actually, images of this field done with an RC or Newt show much larger diffraction spikes on those two bright stars.

Mike
ps just starting the processing on the other image from this dream weather new moon run we were blessed with

p1taylor · #15 03-01-2011, 07:51 AM

There ant harfa lot of galaxies in there, really good wide angle shot.

peter

multiweb (Marc) · #16 03-01-2011, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

The star flares..

..still haven't tracked that one down yet, coming from somewhere in the imaging train, most likely something is sticking in to or providing some sort of incident reflective surface in the light path somewhere....

Can't be your scope. It's gotta be some filter/filter wheel or camera thing. Doesn't look bad. Just wondering what it was.

marc4darkskies (Marcus) · #17 03-01-2011, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

...This is a magnificent galaxy cluster about 165 million Ltyrs away showing 100's of members across the huge 1.6deg X 1.6deg field here.

For the thrill seakers (Marcus

): Full Size Full Res image (6meg)

...

Thant's a fantastic field Mike!! - and not too shabby for only 90 mins data either - looks like the seeing was great - well done! And THAAAANKYOU - that full frame is really nice to swim around!

Cheers, Marcus

CoolhandJo (Paul) · #18 03-01-2011, 10:23 PM

Nice interesting shot!

David Fitz-Henr · #19 03-01-2011, 10:37 PM

Absolutely awesome Mike!

strongmanmike (Michael) · #20 04-01-2011, 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Thant's a fantastic field Mike!! - and not too shabby for only 90 mins data either - looks like the seeing was great - well done! And THAAAANKYOU - that full frame is really nice to swim around!

Cheers, Marcus

he he, yeh I posted that mostly for you mate

...as I have said before I recon galaxy fields are good at full res, panning around finding all the little galaxies is great fun but it doesn't work as well on Nebula shots becasue I think these need to be appreciated more in one go...?

Mike