NGC 6205 / M13 and a host of galaxies

[bluedandelion]

NGC 6205 aka M13 the great globular cluster in Hercules:

Widefield:

Larger version (1600 pix) here.  If you have the bandwidth,  this full size (3300 pix) version shows a host of faint galaxies.

Here's the center crop:

Large version showing full res center crop at 1600 pix

Telescope: TMB130ss, 900 mm, f/7

Mount: EQ6, EQMOD, SGPro, PHD2

Camera: Atik 383L+, EFW2 and OAG3; Lodestar for guiding

Luminance: 14x 6mins= 84 mins

Red, Green, Blue:b6x6= 36 mins each

Processed with: Pixinsight 2.8

Site: Table Mountain, WA, July 2013.

All comments and crituque are welcome. Thanks for looking.

Ajay

[tingting44]

now that is totally stunning

[SnakeyJ]

Lovely colour and depth and resolution right into the core. M13 is one of my favourites:-)

[ollypenrice]

Very delicately done. Delicious resolution!

Olly

[bluedandelion]

Thank you Martin, Jake and Olly.

Ajay

[animal666]

Nicely done..

[animal666]

How many distant are in that shot? Nice.

[Phillyo]

That's beautiful.

[bluedandelion]

Nicely done..

That's beautiful.

Thank you for taking the time to comment appreciat it. Also thank you for all the "likes."

Ajay

[animal666]

forgot a word in my comment...

How many Distant Galaxies are in that shot? Nice!

Makes more sense now...

[ultranova]

a cracker for sure, loades of detail, core is kept well under control

and the colours are very nice indeed,

very nice

Paul

[bluedandelion]

forgot a word in my comment...

How many Distant Galaxies are in that shot? Nice!

Makes more sense now...

I counted more than 30. I am preparing a negative view of this image with galaxies positions marked. Will post it in a few days. Thanks again.

a cracker for sure, loades of detail, core is kept well under control

and the colours are very nice indeed,

very nice

Paul

Thank you Paul.

Ajay

[bluedandelion]

How many Distant Galaxies are in that shot? Nice!

OK so I made a negative of the full scale image and marked all the faint fuzzies that seemed like galxies to me. There are potentially more, but at this scale and exposure length I may start picking up noise related artifacts as galaxies if I am not too careful. If you look at extragalactic databases like NED or Hyperleda you'll find the region choke full of objects - mainly galaxies but also quasars and AGNs. This is not surprising. M13 is located above the disk of our own galaxy. When you look toward M13 you are looking out ina  direction where you csn see a large number of galaxies. If you look along the disk say toward Cygnus or Sagitattarius, the stars in our galaxy crowd out the faint fuzzies.

Here's the marked image. Warning" large image (1600x1200 pix)

http://stargazerslounge.com/gallery/sizes/25019-m13-greyscale/large/

Also check out this app called Where's M13 which allows one to locate objects in galactic coordinates.

Ajay

[christhebrit]

Absolutely stunning.

I just saw the negative as a comparison which really does show the distant galaxies more obvious.

Many thanks for this insight :-)

[bluedandelion]

Absolutely stunning.

I just saw the negative as a comparison which really does show the distant galaxies more obvious.

Many thanks for this insight :-)

Thank you Chris.

Ajay

[NOMH]

Great job Ajay! Focus, color, background are all outstanding.

JB

[bluedandelion]

Thank you JB.

Ajay