M28 + Barnard 309

[dcrowson]

M28 (NGC 6626) is a Shapley-Sawyer class IV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2 ... tion_Class) globular cluster located approximately 19,500 light-years away in Sagittarius.

Barnard 309 is the dark nebula near the top center of the image.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on June 16th and July 12th, 2020 at the Danville Conservation Area (New Florence, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 6/sizes/l/



Dan

[JayTee]

Good gracious Dan,

Could you pack a few more stars into that image. I think it needs them.

No, really, that is a stunning image.

Beautifully done,
JT

[STEVE333]

Wow Dan - That is a shed load of stars!!

That may be the most stars I've ever seen in a single image. Hard to see the "forest for the trees".

Beautiful round stars too. Nice one.

Steve

[drock]

Really cool. Thanks for sharing.

[yobbo89]

that is a alot of stars ahahah ( 3326 px x 2504 px) 8,328,304 stars during the registration ?

[helicon]

Incredible number of stars Dan. Great image!

[ic_1101]

Wow! Thats what I call as star field. Well done!

[BABOafrica]

And tucked away in that mass of stars... a pretty glob. Humble little M28. Well done!

BABO