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Description
The Centaurs core.
Globular cluster n.g.c 5139 omega centauri.

A strange place in space where old Red Giant stars go to die.
Kinda like the graveyards of the cozmos you might say.
To the naked eye it looks like a fuzzy star in the sky at night.
It orbits within the Milky Way Galaxy and is thought to be, and may in fact be, the remains of the core of a smaller galaxy long since captured into the Milky Way!

There is a tad of trailing to the stars, that is an element of the 20min exposure time.
I must have blinked or something while using the drive corrector.
Discovered by Edmond Halley in 1677.
[link]

35mm slide film,20 minute exposure,800 pushed film speed.
Taken in my backyard by ozplasmic (1986 era) with a wide field, f6, 8 inch newtonian reflector with motor drive and drive corrector on an equatorial mount.
Guided through a mounted refracting 2inch guide scope with an illuminated reticle eyepiece.
And a Konika T4 AutoReflex camera.
B setting
Space is the place.

Description
The Centaurs core.
Globular cluster n.g.c 5139 omega centauri.

A strange place in space where old Red Giant stars go to die.
Kinda like the graveyards of the cozmos you might say.
To the naked eye it looks like a fuzzy star in the sky at night.
It orbits within the Milky Way Galaxy and is thought to be, and may in fact be, the remains of the core of a smaller galaxy long since captured into the Milky Way!

There is a tad of trailing to the stars, that is an element of the 20min exposure time.
I must have blinked or something while using the drive corrector.
Discovered by Edmond Halley in 1677.
[link]

35mm slide film,20 minute exposure,800 pushed film speed.
Taken in my backyard by ozplasmic (1986 era) with a wide field, f6, 8 inch newtonian reflector with motor drive and drive corrector on an equatorial mount.
Guided through a mounted refracting 2inch guide scope with an illuminated reticle eyepiece.
And a Konika T4 AutoReflex camera.
B setting
Space is the place.