Abel 1367 Galaxy Cluster Widefield

[Beyond_Vision]

Inspired by Richie Jarvis image a few days back I decided to have a go. This was 3 hours worth of data collected on Monday night.

A veritable galaxy fest



Regards

Kevin

[acey]

Lovely! I looked at this cluster through my 12" from a dark site a couple of weeks ago and counted 7 galaxies but didn't have time to identify them before clouds came - I think you've caught a few more! Your pic inspires me to go back to try again.

I think I read its distance as a third of a billion light years - awe inspiring.

Andrew

[Psychobilly]

I Hope you don't mind Kevin... I have inverted the image and used agressive B&C processing with levels adjustment which is how I process an image for "fuzzy" hunting...

Peter....

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[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks Pete and Andrew, I was hoping some one could run it through astronomy.net to get it annotated

Regards

Kevin

[Psychobilly]

Hi Kevin,

I have run it through Astrometry which only identified the one "star" 93Leo which is why I had been playing with the mono versions of the image...

Here's the solution for what it's worth..

Astrometry.net (Finished job alpha-200903-43503649)

Peter....

[bazza]

Great widefield and great star colour too Kevin.

Barry.

[RobH]

Great....it looks like a starfield at first sight, until you realise how many galaxies are in there!

Cheers

Rob

[acey]

93 Leo is the bright star at the bottom. The image is aligned with west approximately up. There are finder charts for the cluster in Uranometria (A11) and Luginbuhl and Skiff (p147), and I assume Cartes du Ciel will have it plotted.

The centre of the cluster is slightly up and to the right of the image centre, where a notably elongated galaxy can be clearly seen. I could be wrong, but I think this is most probably UGC6697 (which according to Luginbuhl and Skiff is visible in a 12" from a dark site). I think the fuzzy immediately below it is 3842 (brightest cluster member - reportedly visible in a 6" from a dark site). Immediately to the left of 3842 are 2 other galaxies (visible in the negative image, though one looks stellar) - these are -41 and -45 (reading right to left).

Going down, the next very bright fuzzy would be 3861, with its superimposed companion M+3-30-94.

Uranometria plots roughly 40 members and I'm sure you'll have them all in this image, plus others. Luginbuhl and Skiff lists about 20 that should be viewable with a 12". Next clear night I get, I'm going to look for them. Tonight, hopefully!

Thanks again for an inspiring image.

Andrew

[moocher]

Might have a bash at this myself i reckon, lovely image. The negative really shows the galaxies well!!!

Moocher:)