On the 18-Oct-2021 I collected 182 40-second subs of luminance (2 hours total), from my backyard observatory under an almost full moon. I used short subs to avoid saturation of the core. Then, I combined the result with a color
image with lesser resolution from 2015, acquired with a DSLR from better skies.
Although this GC belongs to the Milky Way, the object is escorted on the left by NGC 121 (a GC in the Small Magellanic Cloud), and on the right by star cluster Kron 3 (not sure if it is open or globular).
For a high resolution version click
here.
There is a
HST image of the very core of NGC 104, which I registered onto this image to give a sense of scale and stellar density. Please click
here.
