So I turned to some brighter objects for my latest imaging session...Globular Clusters! M3 & M13.
These are some crazy objects. They are HUGE concentrations of thousands (sometime millions) of stars crammed into a very small area. In low magnification they look like planetary nebulae, but looking closer reveals huge clouds of pin point stars.
These clusters are not part of our galaxy, but do orbit our galaxy in a non-planar orbit (everything else in our galaxy orbits within a planar disc -- which is the shape of our milky Way Galaxy).
These are actually a lot of fun to image and are not too affected by light pollution in the city (as opposed to Galaxies and Nebulae).
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