clusters gallery

	8th February 2008 - Paul Buglass captured this nice image of the "double cluster"cluster in Perseus using his Canon 350D digital SLR at prime focus on a Skywatcher 80ED refracter. 10 images, each of 30 seconds exposure, were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools, and final histogram adjustment was made using Paintshop Pro.
	5th March 2008 - Paul Buglass took this image of the Great Hercules globular cluster (M13) using a Meade DSI II Pro CCD camera on his Skywatcher 80 ED refractor with an F6.3 focal reducer. 20 exposures of 30 seconds were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3. The small magnitude 11 galaxy NGC 6207 can be seen to the lower left of the image.
	8th February 2008 - Paul Buglass captured this nice image of the Messier open cluster M35 using his Canon 350D digital SLR at prime focus on a Skywatcher 80ED refracter. 12 images, each of 30 seconds exposure, were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools, and final histogram adjustment was made using Paintshop Pro. I always think of M35 as the "Space Shuttle" cluster, because you can clearly see the outline of the space shuttle. Above and to the right of M35 is the smaller and older open cluster NGC 2158 which is 10 times older than M35, and 5 times further away at about 16,000 LY.
	Mid November 2006 - M45 - John Lockett took this lovely widefield image of M45 using his Canon 20D digial SLR and 3 x 3minute exposures. The exposures were guided using a 70mm guidescope and a DSI camera. Image processing was achieved using Photoshop.
	21st September 2006 - M13 - John Lockett took this widefield image of the great Hercules globular cluster using his Canon DLSR and TMB 80mm Apo refractor on an EQ6 Pro mount.
	21st September 2006 - NGC869/NGC884 - John Lockett took this image of "The double cluster" in Persius using his Canon DLSR and TMB 80mm Apo refractor on an EQ6 Pro mount. The colour saturation has been increased to highligh the different star colours.
	30th August 2006 - Paul Buglass took this image of the Great Hercules globular cluster (M13) using a b&w modified long-exposure web cam on his C8 scope with an F6.3 focal reducer. 56 exposures of 5 seconds were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools v3.
	NGC 2419 - John Lockett took this image with a DSI pro through his 8” LX200 using a Mogg x 0.6 focal reducer, from light polluted skies of York. NGC 2419 (Caldwell 25), also known as the Intergalactic wanderer (or intergalactic tramp as it was originally named by Shapley), is one of the most distant globular clusters, and is about 250,000 light years away, well outside our galaxy. The image is a stack of 56 x 30s exposures.
	M13 - The great Hercules globular cluster, taken by John Roberts using his Starlight Express MX7C CCD camera at prime focus on an Orion Optics 10" F4.8 reflector. This was a single 180s exposure and was recently unearthed after being taken on the 9th of August 2003 at about 23:40pm.
	The Double Cluster in Perseus, wide field view, taken by John Roberts with a Starlight Express MX7C CCD camera on his 80mm F5 refractor with focal reducer. The scope was piggy-backed on his Meade LX50.
	M11 - Open cluster in Scutum - imaged by Paul Buglass on 13th August 2005 using a modified web cam (with Baader UV/IR block and Contrast Booster filters), and a Skywatcher 80ED refractor on a driven CG5 mount. 17 exposures of 20 seconds each were captured using K3CCDTools, and combined to produce the final image, with some histogram and sharpening done using Paintshop Pro 7.
	M13 Globular Cluster - imaged by Martin Whipp and Paul Buglass on May 5th 2005 with Martin's Mintron video camera, and Paul's Celestar 8 SCT telescope on an equatorial mount. About 80 or so frames were captured, and then aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools. Final processing was done in Paintshop Pro to adjust the background level and sharpness.
	M3 Globular Cluster - imaged by Martin Whipp and Paul Buglass on May 5th 2005 with Martin's Mintron video camera, and Paul's Celestar 8 SCT telescope on an equatorial mount. About 50 or so frames were captured, and then aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools. Final processing was done in Paintshop Pro to adjust the background level and sharpness.
	M45 - imaged by Martin Whipp on January 8th 2005 with his Mintron video camera, using a 75mm F1.3 video lens, from near Sherwood Forest. About 60 frames were aligned and stacked using K3CCDTools.
	4th April 2005 - M13 imaged by Paul Buglass using a Celestron Celstar 8, with a modified Philips Vesta Pro web cam. The best 14 frames of 10 second exposures, out of 85, were aligned and stacked by K3CCDTools, and Paintshop pro was used for final processing to produce the finished image.
	6th March 2005 - M13 - Hercules great globular cluster. Imaged by Neil Ward with his Nikon D70 DSLR attached to the 12" Meade LX200. This is a single 30 second exposure, processed with Paint Shop Pro 7. © NJA Ward 2005. All Rights Reserved.
	4th March 2005 - M44 (Beehive Cluster), taken by Neil Ward using a Nikon D70 DSLR attached to a Skywatcher 80mm ED (Apochromatic) refractor mounted on a CG-5 mount driven in RA by a Synta motor drive. This is an enlargement and slight crop of the image below, but with the colour saturation boosted slightly more to highlight the colour differences in the stars in this open cluster. © NJA Ward 2005. All Rights Reserved.
	4th March 2005 - M44 (Beehive Cluster), taken by Neil Ward using a Nikon D70 DSLR attached to a Skywatcher 80mm ED (Apochromatic) refractor mounted on a CG-5 mount driven in RA by a Synta motor drive. The mage is a single exposure of 4 seconds, processed in Paintshop Pro 7. © NJA Ward 2005. All Rights Reserved.
	The Pleiades (M45) wide field view taken by John Roberts on fuji 400 ASA Sensia with a 30sec exposure using a 50mm lens. The camera was mounted on a Helios refractor on an EQ3 mount driven in RA.
	The Pleiades (M45) and Hyades wide field view taken by John Roberts on fuji 400 ASA Sensia through a 300 mm camera lens and the exposure was 20 secondss undriven at f5.6. It was taken at the 2003 Keilder Star camp.