M104 ver 2.0

[Peter Ward]

Extra data is a wonderful thing....

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery20.html

Cheers
Peter

[renormalised]

Very nice:)

The dust lane is well resolved in your piccie, lots of detail.

[Ric]

Awesome Peter, what a striking image.

The dust lane is wonderfully resolved and a real visual treat.

Top stuff

[strongmanmike]

That link took me to a heavily compressed image Peter with blocky stars like the image needed to be expanded :shrug:. Allowing for this though... it looks pretty dam good :thumbsup:

Comparing with Yohannes and Adams recent versions though it appears that dark skies deffinitely help huh? They were 20" and 24" scopes of course.

Mike

[iceman]

Nice work Peter, though I agree with Mike that I noticed some nasty compression artifacts around some stars and a general blotchiness around hte halo.

But the galaxy itself, absolutely beautifuL!

[spearo]

Very nice
great to see the detail in the dust lane
frank

[marc4darkskies]

You're such a tease Peter - how about a full res crop? :)

Cheers, Marcus

[Peter Ward]

Nah...you'll just have to see the full res A3+ print at CWAS :)

[Garyh]

Ah Ha! you got a magic email!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Well done Pete!

[Peter Ward]

Yep..pretty stoked.... :D

[jase]

Well done Peter. :thumbsup: Always gratifying to get some recognition.

[skeltz]

Good job peter you gotta be happy eh!!..no secrets on iceinspace;)