Perseus Galaxy Cluster

[johnrt]

Just a little something to blow the cobwebs away, the imaging has been very slow this year.

The Perseus Galaxy Cluster consists of over 500 catalogued  individual galaxies which makes it one of the most massive objects in the known universe. At a distance of approx 250 million light years the galaxy cluster is made up from a variety of spiral, lenticular and eliptical galaxies.

 

58 x 10 minute subs with; an Altair Astro 6" RC, Atik 460ex and Baader Luminance filter. Captured in SGPro, calibrated in Pixinsight and processed in CS5.

Thank you for looking

 

[Paul73]

A properly deep image !!! Lovely.

Any idea how many galaxies you've caught there?

Paul

[johnrt]

Thank you Paul! I hand counted over 100 individual galaxies in there, here's the solved & annotated version.

[wxsatuser]

That's a lot of galaxies.

[Barry-Wilson]

Now, if we could only clear the skies for you and shoo away the moon, this would make a lovely LRGB.  Fingers crossed for you John.

[johnrt]

Thanks Barry, here’s hoping for a decent end to the year weather wise ?

[toxic]

very nice John 

[Beulah]

That's incredible!

[barkis]

That is one massive piece of the Universe  you've brought down to Earth John.
Magical stuff indeed, these telescope/camera duos far outdo any Harry Potter wand.
One beautiful sight for sure.

[johnrt]

Thank you, chaps much appreciated

[Rodd]

That's a great lum image.  Clean--little bloat.  Very nice.  The labeling is awesome too.

Rodd

[tomato]

Totally Brilliant, I just love images like this. I should put this on my office wall and point it out to my boss when I want him to get a bit of perspective on a problem...

[johnrt]

16 hours ago, tomato said:

Totally Brilliant, I just love images like this. I should put this on my office wall and point it out to my boss when I want him to get a bit of perspective on a problem...

I love that idea, next time I'm being moaned at for not having double signed something, I'll just point at this picture on the wall and say "Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch T.V." and wander off.

 

[swag72]

Very nice John ???? It's always a treat to see your images ?

[johnrt]

Cheers Sara, sadly they've been too few and far between this year.