Stars...... Thousands of em!

[CraigT82]

After a bit of set up and testing of my new DSO imaging kit a couple of weeks ago I got out on Friday night and managed to capture a little under 2 hours on M39 - an open cluster in Cygnus.

As M39 is in the plane of the Milky Way there is a shed load of stars in the background!

112 x 60s with UV/IR cut filter - Starfield 102 (0.8x reducer/flattener) and ASI533MC - Ham-fistedly processed in Pixinsight (really need to watch some vids and get to grips with this software as I had no real idea what I was doing)

Edited September 29, 2024 by CraigT82
Messed up the Messier!

[geoflewis]

Wow Craig, now that's a busy star field...!!

[Waddensky]

Lovely! A few interesting dark nebulae on the bottom right of the cluster.

The cluster's designation is Messier 39 by the way. It's a nice cluster visually as well.

[ONIKKINEN]

Very nice, i feel like open clusters are under appreciated in the DSO imaging world so its good to see a nice image of one.

[CraigT82]

9 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Wow Craig, now that's a busy star field...!!

Yes considering the brand of the scope I thought it to an apt choice for its first target! 

[CraigT82]

6 minutes ago, Waddensky said:

Lovely! A few interesting dark nebulae on the bottom right of the cluster.

The cluster's designation is Messier 39 by the way. It's a nice cluster visually as well.

Thank you! Of course….  it is M39 not M49. Bit of brain fade there after fumbling my way around PI for the last 2 hours

[CraigT82]

10 minutes ago, ONIKKINEN said:

Very nice, i feel like open clusters are under appreciated in the DSO imaging world so its good to see a nice image of one.

Thanks Oskari, yes me too. I really like a nice sparkly cluster and it’s good that they can be had under light polluted skies and with relatively short integration times 

Edited September 29, 2024 by CraigT82

[WolfieGlos]

Nice image Craig, plenty of colour and a nice field of stars whilst M39 is prominent too. 

[Sunshine]

This is beautiful! 

[Sunshine]

This is beautiful! 

[CraigT82]

On 03/10/2024 at 02:37, Sunshine said:

This is beautiful! 

So nice you said it twice! lol

[Paul M]

Nice!

I tried plate solving this image in ASTAP to try and identify a fuzzy, but it's just too starry!

Anyway, DSS imagers shows the same object and I've not found any details about it. It seems to have some (spiral?) structure too.

I've annotated it in a crop of your image. Looks like another edge on galaxy type feature immediately above it too. Not somewhere I'd expect to find tiny fuzzies, in the middle of the Milky way!!

 

 

EDIT:

There are indeed 2 galaxies there:

https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=KHG+1-15&QueryType=ned

http://atlas.obs-hp.fr/hyperleda/ledacat.cgi?PGC+086597++++++++++++++++++++

Edited October 6, 2024 by Paul M

[CraigT82]

Thanks! Yes that is a very interesting thought isn’t it… we are looking right through the Milky Way and out the other side. Mind bending really, what we can do from our little suburban back gardens! 

[Chefgage]

I really like like that image.  I think I will add M39 to my list.