OK, so I keep posting images of globular clusters. And maybe they all look ... similar. But I suspect I'm slightly obsessed with globs. I love their little differences. Also, I reckon if globular clusters didn't exist, and George Lucas had invented them as a special effect for Star Wars, we'd all say "No way! Get out of here! That could never happen".
12 x 3 min subs, ISO 1600, imaged with the 60Da on the 28yo 5" Newt :-)
Just now (8.30 - 8.50) processed in DSS with a quick stretch etc. in PS
Thanks guys. I keep wondering what the night sky might look like from a planet orbiting a star in the centre of a globular cluster. How might those guys think about the universe?
Thanks guys. I keep wondering what the night sky might look like from a planet orbiting a star in the centre of a globular cluster. How might those guys think about the universe?
Thanks guys. I keep wondering what the night sky might look like from a planet orbiting a star in the centre of a globular cluster. How might those guys think about the universe?
If you haven't already, you need to read a classic short story by Isaac Asimov called "Nightfall", about just that scenario. A planet with three suns which is permanently in daylight except once in several millenia when an eclipse by a dark body lets people see the stars for the first time.
If you haven't already, you need to read a classic short story by Isaac Asimov called "Nightfall", about just that scenario. A planet with three suns which is permanently in daylight except once in several millenia when an eclipse by a dark body lets people see the stars for the first time.
Nice image btw.
That's right, I remember now! I read it as a child. It might have been at the back of my mind when I made that post.
