ASTRO: NGC 5466

This spring I ran my shot of NGC 5033, a very sparse globular in Coma
Berenices with a tidal tail found by the Sloan Deep Sky Survey. It is
about 55 thousand light years away. Not far from it in Virgo is a
similar globular NGC 5466. A bit closer at about 53 million light
years, it too has a tidal tail found by Sloan.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/p.../0511767v1.pdf
For those of you with your hip waders on. It's pretty deep at times.

While I had lots of moonlight when clear this spring but fortunately
globulars come through it fairly well. Oddly I had better than usual
seeing when the moon was out as well. Never knew it calmed seeing!

I finally got rid of most of the gradient issues so here is my attempt
at this loose globular.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' binned 2x2, RGB=1 x 10' binned 3x3,
STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

you really got a lot of stars for this one, I attached an image of this
I did in 2001, 3x300 seconds, mx5c, 150mmf5....

Rick Johnson wrote:
This spring I ran my shot of NGC 5033, a very sparse globular in Coma
Berenices with a tidal tail found by the Sloan Deep Sky Survey. It is
about 55 thousand light years away. Not far from it in Virgo is a
similar globular NGC 5466. A bit closer at about 53 million light
years, it too has a tidal tail found by Sloan.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/p.../0511767v1.pdf
For those of you with your hip waders on. It's pretty deep at times.

While I had lots of moonlight when clear this spring but fortunately
globulars come through it fairly well. Oddly I had better than usual
seeing when the moon was out as well. Never knew it calmed seeing!

I finally got rid of most of the gradient issues so here is my attempt
at this loose globular.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' binned 2x2, RGB=1 x 10' binned 3x3,
STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick


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