These are images of very faint and distant galaxy clusters.  Amazing they can be imaged from near a city!  They cannot be seen at all through the eyepiece.

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Stephans Quintet  (color)     Stephan's Quintet 10/2/04 (30x10min Lum) 

Persius A Cluster

Abell 262 Cluster    12/27/04 Lum 90 min  Silver Spring Observatory (H85)

NGC 2752 Cluster  1/8/05 Lum 80 min

M105 Cluster  1/18/05  Lum 300 min (check out tiny faint galaxies in lower left)

NGC 90 Cluster  9/4/05  LRGB=600:120:120:120

Abell 1656 Cluster (Coma Galaxy Cluster)  4/5/05 LRGB=600:60:60:60  (400 million LY, 17 mag galaxies and one 19.7 mag 2.1 bLY!)

Arp 319 (Stephan's Quintet) BBO 2007

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