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The Perseus Double Cluster, Peter Shah (Roboscopes)
The Perseus Double Cluster, Peter Shah (Roboscopes)

The Perseus Double Cluster

The Perseus Double Cluster, Peter Shah (Roboscopes)
The Perseus Double Cluster, Peter Shah (Roboscopes)

The Perseus Double Cluster

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The Perseus Double Cluster  NGC869 and NGC884, surrounded by clouds of Hydrogen. I remember as a teenager stumbling across this with my telescope thinking it looked like a firework in the eyepiece. Such a beautiful visual object, it never really had the same impact for me when photographed. With the added Hydrogen its completely changed the way I look at it. There was some tantalising hints of some  faint fluff sitting in the background, I might go back and get a bit more see if I can add to it.

Imaged remotely with the FSQ106ED in OSC and Antlia ALP-T Ha/O3  5nm, Roboscopes  Pier 11.  Exposures were 120x 60s in OSC and 70x 300 in Ha/o3. I did a pretty simple process with the OSC data set.


I then set about splitting the Ha from the dual band set and added it to the colour image. I did use a continuum subtraction but it really didn't have much to take out in this case. All of the processing was done using Pixinsight and Photoshop. 



Thanks for looking

Peter Shah

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