Capricorn SHK 296

[Mike JW]

August 18th - part of the grand tour in Capricorn. 

SHK 296 - very attractive set of faint mag 18 - 19 galaxies, likely to be at least a billion lyrs away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Martin Meredith]

Believe it or not, I have a shot of this one, but it doesn't add anything to yours. The Shakhbazians always manage to throw up interesting shapes -- as you say, very attractive.   There is something about these 'miniatures' that is compelling when doing this style of observing -- one of the many reasons I like the Berkeley clusters.

[Mike JW]

Hi Martin, I so enjoy the patterns and the fact that these galaxies are at the edge of what we can achieve with EEVA. Imagine putting the camera on a 20" Dob in mag 6 skies.........dream on.

Mike

[RobertI]

It seems like we are staring into the abyss with this one. Very nice. 👍