M92 globular cluster and a deep galactic field

[Dan_Paris]

   Hi,

M92 is a well-known globular cluster in Hercules, overshadowed by its more famous neighbor M13 but nonetheless impressive on its own right. It is less known that is lies  close to a rich deep field containing many distant galaxies.

 

Many of them appears on this picture taken last month with my 8" newtonian astrograph, even from my light-polluted backyard  (right clic for the full-resolution picture) :

 

Here is the luminance annotated with ASTAP

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Dan

 

Technical data
200/800 custom Newtonian astrograph with Romano Zen optics and carbon fiber tube
AP900 CP4 mount on Losmandy HD tripod
TS 2.5" Riccardi-Wynne corrector
ASI183mm
ZWO LRGB filters
Guiding : ZWO OAG + ASI120mm mini + AsiairV1
Luminance : 200 *60sec at -10°C
Chrominance : 20*60sec at -10°C each channel
Darks, flats and synthetic biases
Conditions : Bortle 7/8 skies in Paris' suburbs (20km from the Eiffel tower), variable seeing (from 1.8" to 3"), rather poor transparency
Preprocessing and stacking with Siril, processing with Pixinsight and Rawtherapee

Edited August 23, 2022 by Dan_Paris

[Paul M]

What a fabulous image!

What's not to like about deep galaxy fields?

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

That is lovely! I must give that area a go with the 6" Schmidt-Newton one of these days

[callisto]

I'll have to give that one a go... thanks for sharing 

[bomberbaz]

I love these deep field images, especially when you can pop in a well known character with it. 

How far is the most distant of these if you know that is Dan?

2 hours ago, Dan_Paris said:

   Hi,

M92 is a well-known globular cluster in Hercules, overshadowed by its more famous neighbor M13 but nonetheless impressive on its own right. It is less known that is lies  close to a rich deep field containing many distant galaxies.

 

Many of them appears on this picture taken last month with my 8" newtonian astrograph, even from my light-polluted backyard  (right clic for the full-resolution picture) :

 

 

Here is the luminance annotated with ASTAP

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Dan

 

Technical data
200/800 custom Newtonian astrograph with Romano Zen optics and carbon fiber tube
AP900 CP4 mount on Losmandy HD tripod
TS 2.5" Riccardi-Wynne corrector
ASI183mm
ZWO LRGB filters
Guiding : ZWO OAG + ASI120mm mini + AsiairV1
Luminance : 200 *60sec at -10°C
Chrominance : 20*60sec at -10°C each channel
Darks, flats and synthetic biases
Conditions : Bortle 7/8 skies in Paris' suburbs (20km from the Eiffel tower), variable seeing (from 1.8" to 3"), rather poor transparency
Preprocessing and stacking with Siril, processing with Pixinsight and Rawtherapee

 

[peter shah]

Not the normal framing most would expect but I like it. Then you start to look closer and those 'little' galaxies really make it a special image....Nicely done.

[MartinB]

That is a gorgeous image with really nice colour.  The galaxies really enhance it

[assouptro]

Beautiful colours 

Creative composition 

So much to see!  Are you having this printed? 
 

Thanks for sharing 

Bryan

[Mr Spock]

Lovely image - very nicely processed too. I like the colour. Those galaxies make it even more interesting. 

[Saganite]

Beautiful image Dan, really interesting !

I showed M92 to my young Grandson just last night.......after M13...

[Dan_Paris]

Thanks a lot @Paul M, @michael.h.f.wilkinson, @callisto, @bomberbaz @peter shah, @MartinB, @assouptro and @Saganite for your kind words.

 

On 23/08/2022 at 15:38, bomberbaz said:

How far is the most distant of these if you know that is Dan?

That's a good question, I should try to install Aladin and check for QSOs in the image.  In terms of magnitude, it is not very deep (mag 20.6), I reach usually around mag 21.5 with my setup and sky conditions.

 

14 hours ago, assouptro said:

 Are you having this printed? 

I would need first to find space on the walls of my house 😂

 

5 hours ago, Saganite said:

I showed M92 to my young Grandson just last night.......after M13...

 

Did he enjoy the views?

 

 

[Saganite]

He did, very much. I was using my APM ED 152, Bortle 4 sky, good transparency, and pretty good seeing, so the images of both clusters was excellent.