[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

Just Amazing .... makes our solar neighbor hood looks so insignificant.
A lot of stuff out there.....
Thanks for the pic and info

Col.....

thanks Col. we are a just a dot on the map really.

Originally Posted by Placidus

A magnificent image, Ray. The gravitationally lensed arc is spine-tingling. It's going to take me quite a while to fully absorb this one, but wanted to say something straight away. Thanks for the careful explanation.

Very best,
Mike

thanks Mike. There are quite a few interesting papers on this area - found most using Google scholar.

Originally Posted by RobF

Mind blowing really.
Thanks Ray. Awesome work. Mesmerizing field....

thanks Rob - appreciated

Originally Posted by DJT

Love it. Swanning around the galaxy clusters on the iPad. nicely handled, interesting info. Thanks for sharing, Ray

Thank you David - it is interesting to ponder how much there is out there.

Originally Posted by Rod771

Amazing,Ray! Totally mind blowing. Appreciate the info.

Thanks Rod - just hope I got most of the info right...

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

While there are many pretty pictures out there only a handful have the ability to inspire....which you've done in spades here

thank you Peter. that's very generous.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Ray,
you're doing very well with that 10" f4 Newt.
This latest picture is very interesting - so many galaxies!
It gives me some encouragement with my Newt.

cheers
Allan

Hi Allan. thanks - looking forward to your next image with the new scope.

Originally Posted by DJScotty

Superb image ray. The detail is absolutely mind blowing.

thank you Scott - much appreciated

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

There are so many orange smudges. Drake equation Ray?

thanks Paul. The Drake equation can give anything you like, but we have one example of a galaxy with at least one advanced? civilisation at the current time, so taking that single point as the best available data, then each of these 3000 galaxies may have had a roughly similar civilization when this light started out .... or not

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

A very interesting project Ray with a very worthwhile outcome, great work!

Comparing with Hubble data really allows us to interpret what we have captured and shows that there is probably plenty of stuff in many of our images that we just write off as stars but may indeed be much more

Great bit of imaging

Mike

that's a good point Mike. In the plane of the Milky way, we obviously see stars, but in out of the way places, galaxies rule if you go reasonably deep - which is staggering.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

A very impressive result Ray!

Steve

thanks a lot Steve

Originally Posted by Somnium

that is simply stunning Ray, it is images like this which are the reason why i love astronomy so much. it starts to give you some perspective of the scale of the universe.

Thanks Aidan - yep, I can't get my head around these far off clusters, but it is fun to try to understand how vast the universe really is.

regards Ray