Abell1656 The Coma Galaxy Cluster deep field

[pietervdv]

Hi all,

Making a deep Abell1656 has been on my bucket list for some years; and now I finally made an attempt at it. I escaped the fuss of Christmas and New Year's celebrations to enjoy a great week in Southern France Provence for imaging. The weather was great with 4 out of 6 crystal clear 12 hour long nights. This is the first result; a long haul in Luminance on this impressive Galaxy Cluster. I did not bother with colour as I feel it does not add much. 

 

Equipment: Homebuilt 10" f/3.8 Astrograph with Wynne corrector on a Mesu200 mount

Sensor: ASI-1600MM-Cool cmos -20°C

Exposure: 10 hrs (5 min subs)

Filter: Baader Luminance

Capture and Calibration: Sequence Generator Pro and Astro Pixel Processor

 

Thanks for checking it out,

Regards,

Pieter

Edited January 25, 2020 by pietervdv

[happy-kat]

That's looks to be a smartie field of galaxies. It's quite striking in bw.

[Laurin Dave]

That's very impressive Pieter..  as are the images on your website. From Les Granges?  

Dave

[Ships and Stars]

Very nice indeed!

[tomato]

Great image, really nice in monochrome.

[pietervdv]

1 hour ago, Laurin Dave said:

That's very impressive Pieter..  as are the images on your website. From Les Granges?  

Dave

Thanks, that is correct!

Pieter 

[Mr Spock]

Excellent. There's a lot going on there!

[geoflewis]

Wow, that is a seriously impressive photo with a seriously impressive number of galaxies - did you count how many yet? 🤔

[Martin Meredith]

Beautiful image! In case it is useful, here's a chart showing galaxies down to mag 20 or so, occasionally deeper (needs to be turned upside down for comparison). I think you've gone deeper than this chart!

COM4937.pdf

Martin

[mdstuart]

Stunning just stunning.

[DaveS]

Wow! A serious number of faint fuzzies there, that's deep.

[MartinB]

That is a seriously deep image, oh for dark skies!

[pietervdv]

Thanks all for taking the time to look and comment!

Pieter