The Great Hercules Cluster
Image details:
Globular clusters are vast swarms of ancient stars that inhabit the halo of our galaxy, outside of the main disk where most of the stars (and the Earth) reside. They can contain anywhere from ten thousand to a million stars. These stars orbit the collective center of mass of the cluster in a veritable bee hive of motion, and the cluster itself orbits the Milky Way as a distinct object, occasionally plunging right through the main disk and out the other side. Although the cluster appears extremely dense, the distance between individual stars is actually quite large. As a result, stars within them rarely collide, and in the main globular clusters survive relatively unscathed by their passage through the galaxy's disk.
Not to mention towards the mid upper left of the frame there's a small galaxy know as NGC - 6207 it is 50 million lightyears away from the solar system and it's a magitude 11.
Technical details:
Optics: 8" f/3.9 Orion Newtonian Astrograph with aperture ring and coma corrector
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon 60D unmodified
Guiding: 60mm guide scope with orion starshoot
Dates: May 27-2022
Location: Taken at my Backyard observatory in Northwest Mo.
Exposure details: 1 hour 3-minutes subs, ISO-800 no calibrations frams
Processing: Pixlnsight, photoshop
Globular clusters are vast swarms of ancient stars that inhabit the halo of our galaxy, outside of the main disk where most of the stars (and the Earth) reside. They can contain anywhere from ten thousand to a million stars. These stars orbit the collective center of mass of the cluster in a veritable bee hive of motion, and the cluster itself orbits the Milky Way as a distinct object, occasionally plunging right through the main disk and out the other side. Although the cluster appears extremely dense, the distance between individual stars is actually quite large. As a result, stars within them rarely collide, and in the main globular clusters survive relatively unscathed by their passage through the galaxy's disk.
Not to mention towards the mid upper left of the frame there's a small galaxy know as NGC - 6207 it is 50 million lightyears away from the solar system and it's a magitude 11.
Technical details:
Optics: 8" f/3.9 Orion Newtonian Astrograph with aperture ring and coma corrector
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: Canon 60D unmodified
Guiding: 60mm guide scope with orion starshoot
Dates: May 27-2022
Location: Taken at my Backyard observatory in Northwest Mo.
Exposure details: 1 hour 3-minutes subs, ISO-800 no calibrations frams
Processing: Pixlnsight, photoshop
