[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Thanks Mike, atalas, ZeroID, Octane, dvj, alpal and Nico13. 4x180s, 4x60s and 4x20s subs, 35mm, f2.2, ISO1600.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Given what Alex has done there Troy it looks like your data is relatively sound, in fact I think you have revealed more extensions and more detail than the Aero Ekta lens did. The individual circular frames of old B&W film data look to have suffered from vignetting and thus without the modern technique of flats available to them and after mozaicing the circular frames together the faint extensions are probably not complete..?

Nice work and another example of why THIS may well not make me a deluded emperor

MIke

Originally Posted by atalas

I'm sure Ive seen the tidal tale somewhere before but still very nice Pic.

Originally Posted by ZeroID

Fascinating and stunning image. What was total exposure time ?

Originally Posted by Octane

I can't remember who it was, but, someone from Perth posted images about 5 years ago showing the same tidal stream structure, too.

It only shows up in deep exposures.

Beautiful stuff.

H

Originally Posted by dvj

Not unknown to professionals, but I don't think I've seen many amateur images of this structure called the Magellanic Stream. Extremely faint. You must have shooting from an extremely dark site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Stream

And here is a deep, inverted stretch of the area...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/4...n/photostream/

Originally Posted by alpal

That's a very interesting pic.

You can make out the distorted spiral structure.

Originally Posted by Nico13

Nice work there Cazza,
I do recall reading somewhere that the LMC is classified as a Barred Spiral which surprised me but can't recall where at the moment.

PS. Just checked it was in Sky Safari Pro on the iPad that refers to it as a Spiral Galaxy