Intergalactic Wanderer widefield

[Hals]

Hiding among a rich starfield in Lynx is NGC 2418, a distant globular orbiting our milky way approx' 240,000 light years away. First thought to be not gravitational bound to our galaxy recent studies have shown it is...with an orbital period of around three billion years!

Widefield image and a crop. 

LRGB image, a hair over 4hrs integration time against a 55% Moon.  Clear skies are as rare as clear skies these days.

Pete.