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![Omega Centauri – the biggest globular cluster, or is it something else?](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/OmegaCentauri-4-768x646.png)
Omega Centauri – the biggest globular cluster, or is it something else?
This object was a real challenge to image. From central Florida, it only rises 13 degrees above the horizon, deep within the light-polluted murk of my Southern sky. Omega Centauri is a Southern hemisphere object, so capturing it from the Northern hemisphere requires effort. It’s worth it though – this is one of the most…
![Cygnus Wall](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CygWall-768x610.png)
The “Cygnus Wall” of Star Formation
This portion of the North America Nebula in the constellation – you guessed it – Cygnus, is a giant cloud of ionized gases where new stars are being created. It’s also pretty. These are both false color images, processed a couple of different ways. The first is the classic “Hubble Palette” that maps ionized emissions…
![SH2-9](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SH29-proc-768x705.png)
Just an obscure little cloud of hydrogen.
This nebula goes by the unassuming name of SH2-9. It’s part of a larger complex of clouds known as the Rho Ophiuchi complex, but you don’t often see people focusing on this part of it. It’s a challenge to image from my location, as it’s very low in the sky in a light-polluted direction. There…
![M17 doesn’t look like a swan to me.](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/M17-768x908.png)
M17 doesn’t look like a swan to me.
M17 is commonly known as the Swan Nebula or the Omega Nebula. From this angle, I think it looks more like a crab – but “Crab Nebula” was taken! Shot over a hazy summer night, with narrowband filters for the gases of the nebula itself, and RGB natural-color filters for the stars. Presented processed with…
![Globular Cluster M13](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/M13Crop-1-768x466.png)
Globular Cluster M13
M13, the great globular cluster in Hercules. You can see some of its interesting neighbors, including the galaxy NGC 6207 in the lower-left. While M13 itself is 25,000 light-years away just above our galactic plane, NGC 6207 is 37 million light-years distant. About halfway between the two, the galaxy IC 4617 is also visible –…
![The galaxy NGC2841, 46 million light-years away.](https://boldly-going.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NGC2841-proc2-768x954.png)
The galaxy NGC2841, 46 million light-years away.
This is a somewhat obscure target; at 46 million light-years distant, it’s hard to capture much detail on it from Earth. But that’s what makes it interesting and challenging! Located within the constellation Ursa Major, this is a flocculent spiral galaxy notable for its massive central core. Look around in the background, and you’ll find…