[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Fabulous image Marco Polo, look at that extended halo around IC 1459 awesome! Soooo many galaxies and yes this area is not imaged nearly as often as it deserves, I agree...perhaps because a rather wide and high res field is necessary to do'em all justice and this keeps them a little overlooked?

Although, not as deeply as you have here, I shot'em way back in 2008 from a dark sky too and given their relative obscurity, funnily enough with nearly 30,000 hits now this is one the most hit images on my web site.

Another great job Marco..hope you get to deliver a paper at an Aussie imaging conference in the not too distant future, you are the master at bringing out super faint details without mega data

Mike

Thanks Mike! I knew your image, actually there are not so many shots around of this lovely area and yours is among the best rendition of it. Interesting to know it had lots of visits, considering not being the most impressive patch of sky out there but still lots of features are visible

About me giving a speech at AIC.. well, not so sure I could make it

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

Great view on 3x large image Marco!

Some unusual little galaxies amongst that lot.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin!

Originally Posted by RickS

That's a lovely group, Marco!

Thanks Rick!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Love the variety of galaxy types in the field. Nice composition and colours are good too. Is there a little misalignment at the top of the image? Some of the stars look a little out of registration. Overall a great looking image to me. I think it might need just a little more integration time, but that seems to be just my personal liking.

Hi Paul, thanks. I am not sure about misalignment, I believe it is most a effect of the high (excessive?) saturation process that produced some artifacts, but I will double check it..
Surely going longer with the exposure would have helped in reducing the noise (but there are already 5 hours of luminance), even better using a larger aperture or stretch a bit less, trading some faint details for a more noise free overall result.. always a difficult balance decision to make..

Clear skies
Marco