3 from last night - 47 Tuc, Blue spider, Horse

[astroron (Ron)]

I remembered a post a while back on this same subject and I posted this image , by the way which agrees with the chart on the sky planatareum
Ron

[Tamtarn]

Great to see some more images from the 40D Doug.

Tucanae looks good with the 300sec exposures, we must try some longer subs as our earlier image came from much shorter subs.

The Flame and Horsehead is really good and you have brought out a lot of depth in the detail of the image.

I wouldn't complain to much about Tarantula.
Our images are blue too as that is how the camera sees it.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

I wouldn't complain to much about Tarantula.
Our images are blue too as that is how the camera sees it.

Thanks B&D,
repeat after me "Must go deeper, must go deeper!!"
Cant wait till I get my WO 0.8x reducer/flattener - sort out the edge coma.
I want to push into that 10min sub territory - but there aren't enough hours in the night!!! Oh for the days of those 40x30sec exposures
I've had about 3x 3am nights in a row, got the dark circles under the eyes - starting to look like a panda...and rambling too!!!!
"Must go deeper!!!"

Doug

[Apocrisiary (Michael)]

Originally Posted by astroron

I remembered a post a while back on this same subject and I posted this image , by the way which agrees with the chart on the sky planatareum
Ron

Hi Ron, Where did that image come from? I think NGC152 is labeled incorrectly. Karlsson is spot on...a very obscure little globular, Kron 3, overshadowed by that monstrous thing next to it. It is labeled as L8 in the Millennium Star Atlas. If the field was a little larger I think Kron 7 would be a little further up above Kron 3. The field would need to be about twice as large to fit NGC152 in the field.
There is a good article by Steve Mencinsky on the ASNSW site under ASNSW Member Articles: Beyond The NGC: "For A Fistful Of Globulars". Here he says "It (Kron 3) is not particularly difficult to observe - Andrew Murrell stumbled upon it with his 10" telescope from his backyard in Woy Woy, while Mark Blackford and I were able to see it very easily (from Ilford) in his beautiful 4 inch refractor." http://www.asnsw.com/articles/bngc/bngc4.asp

Ron maybe you have been observing Kron 3 all this time and not been aware you were actually observing a 8 billion year old globular in the SMC!

Cheers,

Michael