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Originally Posted by Larryp
Very nice, Mike! So many galaxies in that field  |
Cheers Larry, always nie to see faint fuzzies
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Great colour and cool detail. Some really nice little galaxies in the surround field too.
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Cheers Paul, after a good mount, seeing is everything
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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Mike,
Top image.
Nice to see another galaxy in Sculptor.
Your observatory was a great idea.
I hope to see a lot more.
cheers
Allan
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Cheers Allan, there are plenty of other galaxies in Sculptor and that whole region around the galactic pole, this new camera system will be chugging away on a few of them for the next couple of new moons I can see it
And yes, even though it is not automated, the observatory is such an asset
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Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne
Galaxy King!
There's really no other description I can use.
Your usual inspiring work Mike!
If you don't mind I'm posting my 7793 here just to show how amazing yours is.
Only an hour of data on my shot, it's an image from last year.
Cheers,
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Thanks heaps Justin, I guess the skills are there, just need the consistent and good seeing, once the equipment is of adequate size and quality, processing is honed... then seeing is
everything 
That shot of yours is ok, it clearly shows the spiral arms
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Originally Posted by John Hothersall
This is overshadowed by Sculptors other bigger galaxies but it is a splendid image, I could look at the background galaxies all day. People say the 694 sensor's shallow well 20k makes getting colour difficult with stars that tend to saturate but you don't seem to have this problem.
John.
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Hi John thanks mate, ditto on the background galaxies
The small wells may well be an issue but I decided from day one with this camera by using 5 or 10min only for Lum and only 5min for RGB...seems to work
with the OAG now I could go longer but 10min with 12" and F3.8 and 20K wells seems quite adequate
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Originally Posted by Rod771
Very nice Mike!
So many galaxies in one frame and some people think we're alone?  |
Cheers Rod, alone..? Yeah, I recon not huh?
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
It's so much like NGC300, with that cluster of galaxies right next to it.
A fine image Mike. |
Cheers Jeanette
Yeah similar in some ways to NGC 300 but covers only 1/4 the sky area.
To me it looks like a mini M33 really
Mike