[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Excellent Mike n Trish, the sharpness really pops and very smooth noise free for such dim surface brightness

Thanks, Fred. As Paul says, it would benefit from much more exposure.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

She's right!

Fruitful 10hrs work there M&J and 1 hr subs sheesh ... yes love that little possum looking background galaxy top left too

I won't pass comment on the "dottyness" cause NGC300 does have that sort'a look but there are no worms at least

Great mega scope stuff again guys

Mike

Cheers, Mike! We can't wait to get both colour and much more luminance on it. Think it will be worth the effort.

Originally Posted by topheart

What a sparkler!!

Congrats!!

Well done!

Tim

Thanks, Tim.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Super capture ! Remarkably smooth for only 10 x 1hr long subs, Top processing there then too _ _

Thanks Bob.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Mike & Trish,
That's superb.
I tried a test shot tonight & with an 10" f4 & I only picked up
the central region with a 5 minute L subframe at 1x1.
It's a deceptively difficult beast.

cheers
Allan

Hi, Allan. As you say, apart from the star-forming regions, the spiral arms are most elusive.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Ahh long subs. I think you could stretch the data just a bit more to bring out those little galaxies in the back ground. There are so many of the tiny little suckers, it would be easy to mistaken those for stars. The main star of the show looks good and I suspect that another 5-10 hours are going to help bring out those faint dust lanes near the core.

I am looking forward to seeing the final result.

Thanks, Paul. We agree with you on all counts. We managed to stretch it another x3 and nothing really terrible happened, but as you say, it desperately deserves a true hammering, with lots of lum, to try to get the really faint stuff. We can't wait. Should be worth the effort.

Best,
Mike and Trish