[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Asterix2020

Ray, that is an awesome image. Love all the background galaxies as well.

thanks Paul - yep, the background galaxies are fascinating

Originally Posted by clive milne

Bravo!...

Hi Clive. Thanks very much

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

Really superb Ray, just gorgeous to look at and marvel at.
Graham

Thanks a lot Graham - appreciate the comment

Originally Posted by PRejto

That is a beauty Ray! Makes me want to try the same field but from North Curl Curl I highly doubt it would be very satisfactory.

Hope you can figure out the water mark thing. If you are paying for that site I'd be fairly unhappy!

Peter

Thanks - definitely needs a dark sky Peter. The site is free and looks pretty good - but it looks like the watermark becomes part of the image. My own fault, I didn't read the instructions carefully enough.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Raaaather good shot that old boy....

I look forward to viewing it back home in a few days, the room here in Thailand is a bit bright but never the less I can tell it's a corker shot

Viva la fast Newt, SX camera and short subs = great combo

Mike

Thanks Mike. Yes, a fast scope with small quiet pixels can work quite well - the main limit is the sky brightness, but one has to live with that or move.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice detail Ray and good colour. Background looks like it has a bit of speckle in it. Not visible on my iPad but definitely seen on the high def screen.

The water mark as Marcus points out if off putting too.

Overall a really nice image. Can you tell me if this is a full res image? I am wondering what this camera's native size images look like.

Thanks Paul. Speckle does show up on my laptop if the screen is at the wrong angle - decided to set the background up a bit to bring out the last little bit of the dim background stuff - at the expense of some extra noise. The original on the site is full res, with about 5mpix of the full 6mpix frame (cropped for composition). So this is pretty close to a full native scale image - full frame is about 0.8 x 0.5 degrees.

regards Ray

Edit: just realised that the background galaxy cluster is Abell 728S