sexy Sextans !

[nytecam]

Not a tiny constellation I visit much but some interesting stuff from one evening - all via my obsy Meade 30cm f/4 SCT+ SX Lodestar-Mx2 mono camera in brief exposures of typically 2 - 3 minutes - hence the noise.4 GX/ 1 Pal 3 GC [enlarged crop]/ 3 QSOs in m16.5 range @ 2.2 - 10.7 BLY.  There are other nice gx for another evening.  North = up / west = right as always.

N3115 Spindle Gx - the core is extremely bight and needs an exposure of just a few second.  Gx apparently contains a billion solar mass blackhole.

N3165/6/9 trio gx

QSO 1008+009 @ 2.2 BLY
QSO 1011+034 @ 3.6 BLY
QSO 1011-017 @ 10.7 BLY   2nd very faint 'star' abutting to right [west] also on Sloan DSS.

Pal 3 GC - only the brightest stellar clustering recorded with stars m18.0.  Extremely small and faint in Sloan DSS so lucky to record anything !

Hope pics are of interest;-)

[Chris]

Now that's what I call deep space!