[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice scale MnT. The colour is very similar to the image a did a few years back now. Nice detail and tight stars.

Hi, Paul. Your image is now in my "Brilliant works by others" catalogue. It has an interesting beastie at the very top, which is out of frame on ours.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice picture and lovely lucid description of what is happening. I fully agree that NB should illustrate something physical and not just be a free-for-all-slap-together-palettes-to-produce-a-pretty-picture approach.

As someone once chipped "Keep the bast*rds. honest"
Cheers

Thanks muchly, Geoff. Perhaps the 16803 chip is a 'Don' Chipp.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Great work Mike. Its definitely go hard or go home. 1 hour subs - gulp.

Greg.

Cheers, Greg! The long subs really only matter when there's very faint stuff to shoot. We puzzle about when to resort to 2x2 binning. Unbinned [SII] always seems to work out clearer and sharper; binned is a lot less gritty, and is sometimes the only way to see anything at all. Dunno.

Originally Posted by RickS

Lovely work, M&T, both on the image and the description

I have about 16 hours on this target from two years ago and have never managed to come up with an image I like, even if I disrespect the light. Yours is way better than anything I've managed so far!

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks so much Rick. Kind and encouraging words.

Originally Posted by E_ri_k

Intersting object, and nice writeup I like the colour palette, looks good:thumbs:

Erik

Hi, Erik! Glad you like it too.

Very best,
Mike and Trish