[Paul Haese]

Thanks everyone for the comments. It is a cool looking planetary.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Very fine indeed. I dimly recall doing that one a million years ago, before the civil war, and it reminded me of a wrist-watch, complete with band and a minute hand.

Thanks Mike, it does look like a wrist watch now that you mention it. Interesting perception.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Cool little blighter that one Paul, has come out well.

I shot her a few years ago too... looks very similar...strangely

It looks quite similar to NGC 6369.

Mike

Thanks Mike, yes both look similar to each other, though I think I prefer this one more. Your image was used as a reference image.

Originally Posted by Stonius

Nice! Dumb question, but I've always wondered how you guys get the star map overlays? I figure you enter a solve in something? But what generates the alpha channel or mask?

Markus

Markus the annotation is produced in Pixinsight. I did a solve of the image and then rendered the annotation over the top of the image.