Wednesday, 1 June 2016

This is another of my short exposure captures.
It is a "double" Globular star cluster consisting of NGC 6528 and NGC 6522.

This was imaged on Monday 30th May 2016.

40 X light frames.
40 X flat frames.
40 X dark frames.
40 X bias frames.
All shot at ISO 800 at 30 second exposures.
Scope is a Skywatcher 102 and camera is a Canon1200D.

This double GC has fascinated me as a visual object.
In my 8" Dob I can just barely see the two with averted vision.
In the Annotated image NGC 5619 is also shown, this is a double star found by William Herschell back in 1860, how he saw that in the busy star field and milky way I don't know!


No comments:

Post a Comment