[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Love that spiral. Very nice and the star colour is lovely Rolf. A bigger image would be nice to surf through.

Thank you Paul. You can access the full resolution image here.

Originally Posted by Octane

Oh, my. Rolf, that image just took my breath away.

Spectacular.

H

Thanks very much H, I was surprised with how well it turned out. I really just wanted to image something off the beaten path again and stumbled across this little group.

Originally Posted by allan gould

Rolf, what a beautilful image. Fantastic result but I expect that from you.
Allan

Thank a lot Allan - now the pressure is on it seems!

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Yeah, beautiful field chock full of galaxies! Nice colour processing on the stars and galaxies as well. One small point - the stars look slightly elongated left / right, is this a guiding issue?

Thanks David, yeah I think I need to take the G11 apart and give it a tune-up soon. I plan to do that when I install my new 12.5".

Originally Posted by LewisM

En meget provokerende og ærefrygtindgydende billede Rolf!

Mange tak Lewis, jeg vidste ikke du taler saa godt dansk!

Originally Posted by naskies

Whoa, you never cease to impress and amaze Rolf

Thank you Dave!

Originally Posted by Ross G

A beautiful photo Rolf.


Ross.

Thanks Ross!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! Beaute field Rolf. Excellent shot. Sharp as.

Cheers Marc, I think the 17 hours helped as well. A standard image for me is usually around 10 hours, but I decided to go a bit further on this one since the spiral arms were so faint.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Great stuff as usual Rolf. Never seen this group before.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve, neither had I I really enjoyed taking and processing this image, and the fact that there turned out to be so little info available on these galaxies only added to the excitement.

Originally Posted by Suzy

Phoarwwwww! Way awesome, Rolf!
I love that you photograph the unusual!

And I echo what Rob F said so well:

Rolf, I've just popped this on the IIS fb page along with a plug for your poster purchases.

Thanks a lot Suzy, you're too kind
...If anyone wants some posters you all know where to go
I have to say these look really awesome, not because they are my images but because large format deep sky posters just simply rock
I remember I had two astro posters in my room as a child. My parents bought them in the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen. One was with the Trifid and the other was the Andromeda galaxy. I loved staring at them all the time. I still have them rolled up somewhere, and it's interesting to notice that most images posted here on the forum are now way better than those professional images that I gazed at in awe 25 years ago!

Originally Posted by jase

What a picturesque scene, Rolf! I enjoyed swimming around the original size image looking at the background galaxies. Aesthetic colours to boot makes for an all round visual treat. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Thank you very much Jase, I'm glad you liked it!

Originally Posted by pvelez

Rolf

galaxies in Sagittarius - who would have thunk it

A beautiful image. So many galaxies to wander amongst.

Pete

Thanks Pete, yeah it wasn't the first place I'd expect to find such a scene

Originally Posted by Shiraz

very attractive image Rolf - lots of interesting stuff to look at. regards Ray

Thank you Ray, yes there is a lot of stuff in the background too, most of the tiny faint yellowish dots are distant galaxies.