Unknown Abell galaxy cluster, not pretty, but a little clever :)

[Tim]

I took this little sequence a couple of weeks back. I neglected to jot down where exactly in the sky this area is, but it is somewhere in Leo as I recall.

I haven't done much to the picture apart from levels and noise reduction, so it isn't much to look at. Until you have a look at the full size version, which reveals tens and maybe hundreds of fuzzies in the picture.

I've just submitted it to Astrometry to try and get some more details, will update thread later.

16x900secs with 10" Quattro and QHY8

Thanks for looking.

Tim

[Tim]

Hmm, cant get astrometry to solve it, anybody got any tips??

Cheers

Tim

[Tom OD]

Is astrometery different to what Flickr does? It sometimes locates star and neb in my images.

Tom

[ollypenrice]

Maxim, anybody?

Olly

[Tim]

You can submit images to Astrometrys Flickr site I think Tom, but you can also send them direct and the database will compare the region in the pic with its list of known stars and then identify the area.

When it works

[JohnC64]

Hope you don't mind, but I had a play.

I have discovererd in the past that if you remove some of the little fuzzies in the background, astrometry.net seems to stand a better chance of plate solving.

I erased some of the galaxies (badly sorry!!) and resubmitted the image and it managed to solve it. and puts the center of the image at RA 175.420, Dec 20.050

IC 2951 is identified down the right hand corner

Astrometry.net

Cheers John

[Tim]

Thanks John

If I could remember the name of the central fuzzies it'd be a lot easier. Armed with this info i'll go back to HNS and zoom in on the area and find the cluster that I clicked GOTO on

[martin_h]

Abell 1367...?

[Tim]

That rings a bell Martin, yes, I'm sure that was it

Now then, how many fuzzies in the frame? Lots are only a couple of pixels wide by the look of it.

[martin_h]

Abell 1367

[Stephen]

I "think" Microsoft Worldwide Telescope can also plate solve from uploaded images, but it looks like you've nailed it already

[Tim]

Thats a handy reference Martin, thanks for that.

It would seem there are a load of non NGC listed galaxies in the background too, i'll ring them all on the full size version when I get a few minutes.

[Beyond_Vision]

Yes Tim it's Abel 1367 here's a wider view I have taken of it.

Stargazers Lounge - BeyondVision's Album: Deep Sky - Picture

Regards

Kevin

[Beyond_Vision]

Attached I have circled a triangle of stars in my image. This is in your image but is filling the lower left quarter, as your image is much closer in.