Thanks everyone for the comments.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Exceptional there Paul, it appears as if you even found a distant super cluster at about 4 o'clock. All of that data really helps with the separation between the galaxies and the black but not clipped background
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Thanks Colin, there are a few galaxy clusters in the background that interesting in this field. Pixinsight could not pick up any the galaxies past mag 23. It would be nice to know how distant most of those galaxies are from Earth.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
The H-alpha data are truly excellent. Very different to NGC 253. Perhaps the more tidally disrupted a galaxy the more knots and whorls. One thinks of the three Magellanic clouds, which all have knots and whorls in H-alpha.
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The contrast between your image of 253 and mine of 55 is like chalk and cheese with how things have developed in each galaxy. There must have been a lot of interactions going on in 55 over the millennia.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A super image. Good to see you got your mega hours mojo back.
Greg.
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Having a two reliable scopes back on line is always helpful. I am working on another long integration with the RC at present which will be one of its last I suspect with a new scope arriving in the next few days.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Lot's of data collected and has come together nicely in the end Paul.
As you suspected from the beginning, looks like combining the 29hrs of Ha was indeed a challenge?
Mike
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Thanks Mike. I did find it a real pain to show the detail in the Ha and even then it does not really do it justice. The data is just too faint to be seen. I had to adapt several techniques just to show some of whorls, but unfortunately I could not get the jets showing. Maybe if I had 100 hours of Ha data I might get those out. I am not sure I want to put that much time into this project.