[DJT (David)]

Originally Posted by Octane

David,

Well done -- that is sublime.

H

H, much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Not too difficult.

It sits pretty high up...I imaged the same cluster about 4 years ago, but not with a venerable FSQ and ultra wide field as in David's post.

Originally Posted by alpal

Well done David,
how is that possible from the bright lights of Sydney?
Are you using a light pollution filter?

cheers
Allan

Cheers Peter and Allan
No LP filter. The trick is to get access to a very dark site which am fortunate to have however you can see what Peter is pulling through from the burbs so it’s possible just need a shed load of data and very good gradient removal skills.

Originally Posted by Atmos

That’s brilliant David! Amazing what can be done with 4” aperture. I love the processing how the galaxies just appear to pop against the nice dark background.

Thanks Colin. Wanted to keep the background as dark as
Possible and it’s probably slightly clipped so there’s some very tiny fuzzies that didn’t make the cut.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Mike: Oh, wow!

Many of the ellipticals are not completely featureless, but show evidence of their heritage.

Trish: Half the NGC catalogue in the one picture.

Thanks Mike
Tempted to keep on going with LUM to get more detail but the features you do see are pretty cool.

Originally Posted by Joshua Bunn

Hi David, I enjoy looking through these images, nicely done.

Cheers Joshua!

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

A great capture of this beautiful cluster. Nice one

Thanks, glad you like it.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Not the most common type of target for this type of scope huh?... but that looks pretty good David ...aaand the reason it is on my excitedly looong list of potential targets for my new FSQ ...figured I'd fit in just about all member galaxies with my chip..? I like the inverted version, that's how I spotted NGC 253-dw2

Mike

Would have loved a bigger chip. As you say, odd choice for wide field but just the scale of just how many galaxies are grouped together in the FOV was enough of a kicker to give it a go.

Thanks all for the comments.