Observation by Paul Leyland: More globulars in M81

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Dr Paul Leyland

Observer

Paul Leyland

Observed

2019 Mar 11 - 02:00

Uploaded

2019 Apr 23 - 12:06

Objects

M81

Target name

Globular Clusters of M81

Title

More globulars in M81

About this image

The technical details are identical to those for my other globulars in M81 image so I won't repeat them here.

It occurred that GCs closer to the galactic centre may be visible if the background was removed. Accordingly a 25-pixel radius median smoothed image was created and subtracted from the original. The same contrast stretching & smoothing procedure was followed and the somewhat bizarre looking result annotated. This time I added only a few of the newly located GCs in red. A couple of the previously found GCs closest to the galactic core are marked in yellow to indicate by how much further in it is now possible to detect them.

Files associated with this observation

M81_sub_0.png (850.7 kB)

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