Three Abell Galaxy Clusters

[kirkster501]

All with TEC140 refractor, Atik 460 and Astrodon LRGB filters.  I hope you like them  

Abell 426 - The Perseus Cluster, between 230-280 million light years away

 

Abell 2151 - The Hercules Cluster, about 500 million light years away.

Abell 1656 - The Coma Cluster, about 340 million light years away.  Some bright foreground stars make this extremely difficult and it is a bit beyond my processing abilities currently.

[cfpendock]

Very nice.  I like these kind of images.  What are the spikes on the two bright stars in the last image caused by?

Chris

[x6gas]

Wonderful images.

[kirkster501]

25 minutes ago, cfpendock said:

Very nice.  I like these kind of images.  What are the spikes on the two bright stars in the last image caused by?

Chris

StarSpikes Pro mate (a photoshop plugin).  The only way I could "disguise" the bloated stars in that image.

[MarkAR]

Fantastic number of galaxies, well done.

[tomato]

Very nice trio of galaxy clusters, still amazes me what can be captured with the kit that’s now available.

[astro_john_palmer]

Incredible! I love these galaxy cluster images. They give such a great impression of scale.

[AndyThilo]

Great image, be nice to see an annotated version of them just to see how many galaxies there are in them!

[wimvb]

1 hour ago, AndyThilo said:

Great image, be nice to see an annotated version of them just to see how many galaxies there are in them!

@kirkster501: A shameless plug returned 😁

@AndyThilo: the second image in this post labels the more prominent galaxies:

 

[kirkster501]

There are details on my website (skastro.net) about the images including annotations.  There are PGC catalog galaxies billions of light years away in these fields. 

I am expanding much of the wording on the website as well.  After my security breach in March I just wanted to get material uploaded to the new site at stage 1.  My next step is editing the posts with the addition of more details and adding new posts of images that I have in development.  My processing skills have expanded too so I may be editing many of the images as well.

[Craig a]

Three glorious galaxy clusters there, images like this are right up my street the Hercules cluster looks interesting as it’s dominated by spiral galaxies rather than the usual ellipticals that we normally see, I’m putting this cluster on my top of my list of clusters to have a go at 

[alan potts]

Superb images with a superb scope.

Alan

[John Nodding]

Wow. Awe inspiring! 👍

Noddy

[kirkster501]

The TEC 140 is indeed a fabulous scope.  It is great for imaging and for AP. 

I feel it can be a bit "bloaty" on bright, blue stars even with the additional field flattener I have installed.  If the incredible FSQ85 is anything to go by then I think I'd prefer a FSQ 150 but those are insane money.

 

[MartinB]

Galaxy city, stunning images