They're the shots where you need to point at something to image to pass the time while waiting for your main target. I was next to the fire place in the warmth when these happened.
Yeah, nice fireside imaging Marc I like the way you fitted in that little group of galaxies top right in the Cen A shot...or was that just a fireside fluke? Can juuuust make out the hocky stick shape too
Great resolution for such a modest focal length and some nice little background galaxies in both fields.
Lovely shots.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Great pics, Marc!
Thanks guys.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Yeah, nice fireside imaging Marc I like the way you fitted in that little group of galaxies top right in the Cen A shot...or was that just a fireside fluke? Can juuuust make out the hocky stick shape too
Mike
Thanks Mike. Yeah this time it was done on purpose, not my legendary "GOTO" jazz imaging. I saw them in the FOV in Sky Safari and I though as I was imaging a lot of nothing anyway I might as well offset the field a little and see what the top right corner was about. There are a couple on each of the corners and a really faint blue one in the bottom left.
You're having a great success with the new refractor!
These two shots are special because they show two almost cancelling things: how syrupy thick the Milky Way is, with billions and billions of stars, and inconceivable amounts of dust making everything like an orange sunset; and how despite that, we can actually see through it to some degree, and see not just 4945 and 5128, but a distant smattering of other tiny galaxies. Then the third thing: there's room between us and all that dust for a small number of rare and brilliant blue-white stars which look great in your images.
I like the way you fitted in that little group of galaxies top right in the Cen A shot...or was that just a fireside fluke? 
Can juuuust make out the hocky stick shape too 
