Thanks everyone for the comments. It is a cool looking planetary.
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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.
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Thanks Mike, it does look like a wrist watch now that you mention it. Interesting perception.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.