This galaxy still makes a really cool picture, though, dust lane in the center and all. If you look very carefully, you can see faint light extending toward the upper left and lower right, beyond the main elliptical. The purpose of my 4-meter run is to understand this faint halo stellar light. At that distance, though, the clusters will look like points, and I will have to think of some way to pick them out from ordinary foreground stars. This image is 1.3 x 1.1 deg is size.
North is up, and East is to the left.
North is to the right, and East is up. If I may say so, I think this image is really cool. Hope you enjoyed these pictures.