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Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nothing to criticize here Rick. Beautiful image.

Steve

Thanks, Steve.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Perhaps a bit noisey and something funny going on with the stars (they look worked on) but otherwise it looks great, lots of interesting twists and turns and plenty to enjoy Rick, nice work on what would be a difficult target to process I would imagine

With scopes all over World, you must have plenty of data to work with these days?

Mike

Ta, Mike. Yep, there is noise there even with 20+ hours. I blame the inadequately small pixels on the KAF-8300 The FSQ/QSI-683 combo also produces bloated stars and the occasional giant spike on the bright ones, hence a lot of time trying to clean up the stars and evidence of some of the mangling that went on (also the funky effects of the microlenses). I have used the FSQ at home with both STL11K and U16M cameras I much prefer the results I get with 9um pixels.

And yes, it was a bugger to process

I still have a few data sets to work on but the winter at SRO was pretty awful and we didn't get as many good nights as expected. Hopefully, things will wind up again soon and I'll be drowning in data again

Originally Posted by sjastro

Excellent image Rick.

Steven

Thanks, Steven!

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Hi Rick,

I looked hard to hit you with constructive criticism, but in the end I just enjoyed appreciating the image

Lovely contrast between the light (stars as well as the bright parts of the nebula) and darkness (colder gas clouds) - to me it brings magic to astro images.

Thanks, Slawomir! It's a very picturesque FOV. A mosaic would have been nice. There's some other interesting stuff not far away.

Originally Posted by IanP

Amazing image, Rick, LUV it

Originally Posted by Nortilus

wicked as bloke...keep em coming

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice colours and interesting detail Rick. Nice to have plenty of data too.

Thanks Ian, Josh & Paul.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Capturing a brown dwarf seems a bit special. Well done!

First one that I know of, thanks Mike.

Cheers,
Rick.