distant Shakbazian galaxies

[nytecam]

Light night under a bright gibbous moon I targetted some very faint and distant gx in the Shakbazian Compact Groups of Galaxies.  Shown here [data on images] in Shak 253 in CVn and even smaller group  in Shak 14 in Bootes in distances of up to a billion lightyear range.

Shak 253 follows the lead by Martin Meredith in the Video Forum with very brief exposures via fast optics and cameras [typically Lodestars].  This technique vastly outperform the eye at the EP in stellar penetration at the same scope to go really deep.  It's essentially realtime download to laptop via a single USB lead.  Suburban light pollution [and moonlight] are of little consequence to observing and imaging !

More Shaks from last night to follow ;-)

[Beulah]

Excellent capture - good to see someone making the most of the Galaxy season; more so, the very distant ones...

You can really start to see the galaxys' shapes in the red plate images...

[Martin Meredith]

Excellent work and glad to see you didn't wait for the moon to recede! You're making the extra FL count with better separation of the close pair and starting to see some orientations. This really is a brighter group than the magnitudes suggest, I guess because they're so condensed.

I've another SHK group -- 172 -- from last night to post later (I bet those Shakhbazians a billion LYs away are wondering what they've done to deserve so much close attention).

Martin

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice stuff

[nytecam]

Thanks Beulah, Martin and Michael for your interest and comments - much appreciated ;-)

Here's the third example from the evening in Shak 9 in Coma.

[mdstuart]

Really enjoy looking at your images!

[rharrison]

Very cool subject, didn't someone else image this the other day I'm sure I saw another thread

Nice to see something a bit unusual very interesting.

[nytecam]

Thanks guys :-)

[laser_jock99]

Nice work.