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Old 04-12-2013, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman View Post

It is pretty cool to see this galaxy extending so far across the cluster!

This appearance is not necessarily unusual for those galaxies that are dominant in their clusters, but it is generally very hard to actually get decent images of this vanishingly faint light stretching between the galaxies of a cluster.....
so all credit to you, Mike.
Cheers Rob, I do some strange things to my data and I know some roll their eyes at it ...but it's just so much fun to do in this modern age of sensitive digital imaging, lots of interesting things can be seen if one streeeeetches their data

Mike
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