The Norma Cluster (ACO 3627 or Abell 3627) is a rich cluster of galaxies located near the center of the Great Attractor and is about 68 Mpc (222 Mly) distant. Although it is both nearby and bright, it is difficult to observe because it is located in the Zone of Avoidance, a region near the plane of the Milky Way. Consequently, the cluster is severely obscured by interstellar dust at optical wavelengths.

This represents just under 3 hours of luminance and 1 hour each of R, G and B. Lum was unbinned and RGB was binned x2.

Taken with SBIG STX16803 on Planewave CDK12.5 from my dark sky location near Coonabarabran