[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Paul,
that is beautifully processed - great stars & detail.
It looks very professional.

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan. Not sure about professional but I tried to find a balance between fine detail and contrast level. The image could take quite a few iterations of sharpening before I got to this point.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very impressive result for 11 hours, Paul. Look forward to the final version!

Thanks Rick. I was surprised at the smoothness of the data after such a short integration time but then again it is very bright as far as galaxies go. With any luck I will get a night or two very soon.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's looking terrific. Very luminous and some great colour in the core with very sharp detail.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. The luminance layer I did a fairly step stretch in CCDstack, and that resulted in a very high luminosity. Some selective medium curves and that gave it some pop.

Originally Posted by DJT

Great image. The detail there is quite something and I like the colours here, the blue at 7, as you say is great.

Thanks David, I new about the line of gas and dust pointing away from the galaxy, but in researching the object I came across the arc of blue stars which can be imaged. So I am keen to see if I can get it brighter than just a smear at present.

Originally Posted by glend

Looks very nice Paul. It just so happens that I am imaging Centarus A right now - you've given me a high bar to get to with that beautiful image. Your the RC master for sure.

Thanks Glen for the high praise but I am definitely not the RC master. I do acknowledge that I have learnt a lot about RC scopes and how to get them working well since buying one. Collimation is the key with these scopes and owning a tak scope for collimation is mandatory.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great shot. Central dust is amazing. Lots of faint fuzzies in the field too.

Thanks Mark, the central bar is not bad for the size of this scope. I think it compares fairly well with images from larger scopes.