Sweet stellar spoonful

M15

Dear Skycombers,
   
  Messier 15 is a splendid globular cluster, granulation is fine when compared to
Messier 13 and Messier 5 ‘Salt rather than Sugar’. It is, I hope you agree a
beguiling spectacle, a veritable stellar cornucopia no less.
  
  Drawn with graphite pencil on white cartridge paper and converted to negative post
scanning without enhancement.
  
  7.9.2007,  22:40UT
   Location: Chippingdale observatory, Nr Buntingford, Hertfordshire, UK
  14″ F5 Newtonian at 118x giving a 0’35” FOV
  Seeing Ant 11-111 transparency was good.
  
  Dale Holt

2 thoughts on “Sweet stellar spoonful”

  1. Beautiful sketch Dale, very rich in core detail. Salt-like it is. I was looking at it just this evening not more than a couple of hours ago.

    Frank

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