Mastodawn

Continuing my journey to process images from data captured a year ago. This data captured late 2024 and January 2025.

In the upper right corner of the widefield view is #GlobularCluster NGC2419 (#Caldwell 25) - the "Intergalactic Wanderer". So called because it is well outside the Milky Way - it was perhaps yeeted out!

In the lower left corner is a small galaxy PGC21517. Surprised it does not have an NGC/IC designation (that I can find).

#nlskies #nlastro
#astronomy
#astrophotography
#yeet

Dütt Jan 29

Noch befinden wir uns mitten im Winter, woran uns der Schnee mehr als deutlich erinnert. Am Sternenhimmel jedoch kündigt sich nach Mitternacht bereits der Frühling an. Eines der wenigen markanten Frühlingssternbilder ist der Bärenhüter (Bootes), dessen hellster Stern Arctur mit seiner orangen Farbe im Januar über dem Osthorizont auffällt.
Etwas darüber ist der Kugelsternhaufen Messier 3 bereits mit dem Fernglas sichtbar (Sternbild Jagdhunde), dessen Entfernung etwa 34000 Lichtjahre misst. Entdeckt wurde das Objekt 1764 von dem französischen Astronomen Charles Messier.
Am oberen Rand der Aufnahme ist ganz schwach die Galaxie NGC 5263 in Kantenlage erkennbar, die Wilhelm Herschel mit seinem Spiegelteleskop im April 1785 entdeckte. Ihre Entfernung wird auf 218 Millionen Lichtjahre geschätzt.

Aufnahmedaten
Kamera: ZWO ASI 1600 MMP bei -18°, Gain 200/Offset 29
Belichtung: L 39m, R 39m, G 36m, B 32m
Optik: 102/920 mm Fluorit Apo bei f/7 (#FL102S)
Korrekturen: Bias-, Dark- und Flatframes
EBV: PixInsight, Photoshop
Aufnahmeort: Münster

#astronomy #astronomie #astrophotography #globularcluster #messier

Starry Time Podcast Jan 22

Did someone say -- MORE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS???

Well -- #Hubble heard you!

Here we have M70 (in the constellation Sagittarius) and NGC 3201 (in the constellation Vela)

📷 : https://esahubble.org/images/heic2602a/

#astrophotography #space #science #astrodon #astronomy #M70 #Sagittarius #Vela #stars #GlobularCluster #NASA #ESA

Khurram Wadee ✅Dec 28

#NGC1898: #GlobularCluster in the #LargeMagellanicCloud
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251228.html

#APOD

Khurram Wadee ✅Nov 26

#GlobularCluster #M15 #DeepField
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251126.html

#APOD

Daniel Fischer Oct 22

The #FAST #GlobularCluster #Pulsar Survey (GC FANS): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ade4ba -> interview with the first two authors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIdIoOnMP9c

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS) - IOPscience

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS), Lian, Yujie, Pan, Zhichen, Zhang, Haiyan, Cao, Shuo, Freire, P. C. C., Qian, Lei, Eatough, Ralph P., Shao, Lijing, Ransom, Scott M., Lorimer, Duncan R., Yin, Dejiang, Dai, Yinfeng, Liu, Kuo, Wang, Lin, Wang, Yujie, Zhang, Zhongli, Feng, Zhonghua, Li, Baoda, Li, Minghui, Liu, Tong, Li, Yaowei, Peng, Bo, Pan, Yu, Wu, Yuxiao, Zhang, Liyun, Zhang, Xingnan, Jiang, Peng

Bubulcus & Bolotas Sep 24

Look up to the sky...
and gaze into a cosmic snow globe filled with more than 100,000 sparkling stars — that’s M13, the Hercules Cluster. One of the brightest globular clusters in the Northern Hemisphere, M13 lies 25,000 light-years away in the constellation Hercules, shining at magnitude 5.8 and even visible through binoculars. In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory beamed a radio message its way in an experiment to contact potential extraterrestrial life.
This is a ball of ancient stars packed so tightly together that resolving each one is a true Herculean challenge! ;-)

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #NightSky #Space #Stars #DeepSky #DarkSky #Cosmos #GlobularCluster #M13 #Hercules #Seestar #Universe #Science #Arecibo #Stargazing #Alentejo #Camping #UnderTheStars #CampingLife #CampingInPortugal

Khurram Wadee ✅Aug 14, 2025

#M13: The Great #GlobularCluster in #Hercules
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250814.html

#APOD

StellarSnap Jul 26, 2025

📸 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Omega Centauri, or NGC 5139, is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Located 15,000 light-years away, it holds about 10 million stars — some older than the Sun.

Its mixed stellar ages and compositions hint that it may be the remnant core of a dwarf galaxy.

📷 Data: SkyFlux Team
🛠️ Processing: Leo Shatz

#OmegaCentauri #GlobularCluster #NGC5139 #Astronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap