Abell 1060

Posted by dcrowson
on Thursday, January 21, 2021
Abell 1060 (the Hydra I Cluster) is grouping of 157 galaxies located approximately 134 million light-years away (https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2005/28/aa1583-04.pdf) in Hydra. The bright (mag 4.89 V) star is HD 92036. See the annotated image for more objects.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on May 3rd, 2019 and January 11th, 2021 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/50861096888/sizes/l/

LRGB annotated - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/50861096823/sizes/l/
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