The Great Hercules Cluster

[Beyond_Vision]

This was taken last Sunday night duiring the wee hours a total of 2 hours and 5 minutes of exposure.

Taken with an 8" Altair Astro F4 Astrograph Newt and QHY8 CDD fitted with a Baader MPCC and Neodymium Filter.

Guided with a WO 66SD and DSI CCD on a Orion Sirius Mount with EQMod.

Processed with DSS and Pix Insight LE and Photoshop.

The galaxy to the bottom left corner is NGC6207 and 2/3rds of the way between it and M13 is IC4617. I think there are some more faint fuzzies to the middle left of the picture to the right of the bright golden star but haven't been able to identify them.

Regards

Kevin

[GazOC]

Very nice!!!

[prokyon]

Yes, very nice and very deep! I like the fuzzies.

cheers

werner

[Dave]

Now that is extremely nice.

[Deneb]

Beautiful Kevin, one of the Finest Globular Clusters in the sky.

Cheers

Nadeem

[barkis]

Magnificent Kevin.

The Northern Hemispheres finest globular, and you've certainly

done it justice mate. Gorgeous to behold.

Ron.

[derrickf]

Really nice widefield view of M13, personally I might have processed for a slightly stronger blue but that is just personal choice.

There is a small galaxy at about 4 o' clock to SAO 65484 (orange star in the left of the image) that I am pretty sure is

PGC 2088997

Magnitude: 16.3

RA: 16h 41m 47s Dec: +36°52'25"

Cheers

Derrick

[Psychobilly]

Magnificent Kev

The new kit is doing the biz... Of fuzzy hunting...

Peter...

[MikeD]

exellent shot Kev and the propeller is showing up well too:headbang:

Mike.

[Tim]

And there is the beauty of a fast OTA, all those extra stars really start to stand out. WHat sub length did you use Kevin? You will get very interesting results on this by breaking convention and using relatively long subs, say 10 mins.

Cracking shot, love the colours.

[RobH]

Great result Kevin.

That fast OTA seems to be working really well for you

Cheers

Rob

[riklaunim]

Top left has coma, and bottom right doesn't? Strange. But the cluser is very nice

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks all for your comments.

And there is the beauty of a fast OTA, all those extra stars really start to stand out. WHat sub length did you use Kevin? You will get very interesting results on this by breaking convention and using relatively long subs, say 10 mins.

Cracking shot, love the colours.

It was 25 x 5min subs

Top left has coma, and bottom right doesn't? Strange. But the cluser is very nice

The cluster wasn't centrally placed and I was running late so didn't bother centring it. The image is a cropped although the uncropped image shows this to some effect. I havent optimised the spacing yet and there also may have been some skew in the CCD.

Regards

Kevin

[adamsp123]

An excellent image Kevin, very nicely presented and great depth, they are good those F/4 newts.

[anthony]

Great stuff. Loads of stars!

Anthony

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks for your comments Pete and Anthony

Regards

Kevin

[Beyond_Vision]

Really nice widefield view of M13, personally I might have processed for a slightly stronger blue but that is just personal choice.

There is a small galaxy at about 4 o' clock to SAO 65484 (orange star in the left of the image) that I am pretty sure is

PGC 2088997

Magnitude: 16.3

RA: 16h 41m 47s Dec: +36°52'25"

Cheers

Derrick

Thanks for the reference number

Regards

Kevin