6000 Globular Clusters!

[rogerg (Roger)]

Very interesting, thanks for bringing the paper to our attention Mike. So often these days I think how much great science we could all be doing if only we dedicated the time to specific tasks and had the ideas in the first place. I'm sure a lot of us could do similar papers using observations from our own telescopes.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by rogerg

Very interesting, thanks for bringing the paper to our attention Mike. So often these days I think how much great science we could all be doing if only we dedicated the time to specific tasks and had the ideas in the first place. I'm sure a lot of us could do similar papers using observations from our own telescopes.

Yeh? Ya recon?.... not sure I could get a reliable spectra for a 21st mag globular cluster though

Mike

[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh? Ya recon?.... not sure I could get a reliable spectra for a 21st mag globular cluster though

Mike

Well I guess I don't know at what point the signal of stars is bright enough for good analysis, but we can photograph galaxies of mag 21.5 so why not stars?