Globular-like NGC 1850

Found in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this is some kind of young star cluster that looks kind of like a globular cluster. It's got a cute little buddy to the lower right. I can't really say anything better than the old press release for this image did originally. I'm having fun going through old press release images and seeing what I can do with them.

 

This is one of those woeful old datasets you can mash together and sort of almost make a complete picture but not quite. You can see a good chunk of red H-alpha cloud is missing. I could take the H-alpha off and the cluster looks pretty good without it, but I've somehow grown fond of these funky-looking Frankensteined images.

 

Data from the following proposals was used:

The young double cluster NGC 1850 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

WFPC2 Astromertric Calibration [sic]

Moving Observations of a Fixed Star Cluster

 

Red: hst_06101_01_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci + hst_06101_01_wfpc2_f675w_wf_sci + hst_05559_01_wfpc2_f569w_wf_sci hst_05559_01_wfpc2_f791w_wf_sci

Green: hst_08800_01_wfpc2_f555w_wf_sci

Blue: hst_05559_01_wfpc2_f439w_wf_sci

 

North is NOT up. It is 12.8° clockwise from up.

Done