Description of the Fornax Galaxy by Wikipedia:
"The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. He discovered it while he was in South Africa on photographic plates taken by the 24 inch (61 cm) Bruce refractor at Boyden Observatory, shortly after he discovered the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
The galaxy is a satellite of the Milky Way and contains six globular clusters; the largest, NGC 1049, was discovered before the galaxy itself. The galaxy is also receding from the Milky Way at 53 km/s. It mostly contains population II stars. " (End of Wikipedia text)
Find my annotated image which shows the 6 Globular Cluster
hereThe yellow circles with For 1 to For 6 show Globular clusters. All bluegreen circles and markers show the 849 PGC galaxies in the image!
The interesting in this image layout are the Molecular Clouds.
Beside the six globular clusters visible in and around the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy
there are Molecular Clouds visible south of the galaxy in this image!
More info on the exposures:
In addition to the 122 R G B binned-2 exposures there were
also made 23 Luminance exposures with binning 1 and integrated into the RGB
image.
The image is a
Cooperation between me: Gerald Wechselberger - and Dr. Franz Gruber.
Exposures were done during 14 nights from September 23rd to October 23rd 2019
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