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Old 24-01-2010, 03:28 PM
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Globular cluster swarm

NGC 1399 has an estimated 6000 globular clusters so I processed this bit of my wide field image to reveal them. If you look closely at the negative version you will see a swarm of faint dots in the huge galaxy halo - amazing!

http://upload.pbase.com/strongmanmik...46215/original

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Old 24-01-2010, 05:25 PM
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Thanks Mike

This is very interesting Cheers Petra d.
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Old 24-01-2010, 06:22 PM
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Mike,

Most intriguing. Great image and negative.

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