Thanks Slawomir, Neil, Ken, Grahame and Ross. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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Originally Posted by PeterM
Paul that is a superb image, one of my favourite objects from my visual days and one of the best gems in the whole sky. Today even one of my quick n dirty 30 second supernova search monochrome jobs brings out sensational detail, but nothing like this!
It was discovered by James Dunlop from Parramatta in 1826, though Hartungs says J Herschel discovered it in 1835. Its about 3000 light years away. Love the wide field around it, you don't often see that.
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Thanks Peter, I never saw this in my visual days and we both remember those. I was swayed to the dark side very quickly by Jim as you may well remember. I had only recently read up its discovery. There does seem to be a bit of a discrepancy with the distance though. The
Wikipedia page seemed to say either 1780 light years in the text and 3000 light years in the side panel. Which is correct?
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
The detail levels are essentially the same (ie. not too bad), just a slightly different colour scheme and orientation, t'was from my previous observatory  .
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I think your central bar shows more detail Mike, whereas mine shows a little more detail in the OIII bubble, hence why I thought there was some differences which appeared to be from application of the data.
I thought the comment on your page was about your latest observatory. My mistake.
