[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by el_draco

Wow! What a gorgeous shot. Love those faint galaxies al round the place.

Thanks, Rom. There seems to be some sharp-edged patches of bluish nebulosity that we forgot to mention also.

Originally Posted by codemonkey

Beautiful work! Lots of little fuzzies; enjoyed panning around in the full res.

Thanks, Lee. We enjoyed photographing this after 4945 in Centaurus, where it's far harder to find background galaxies.

Originally Posted by Atmos

When I first looked at the high res my first words were wowza! What I like about all of those bright stars is that they ALL LOOK LIKEE THEY'RE EXPLODING!

Now that that is out of my system, it is a lovely imagine. I do particularly like that fainter galaxy cluster, it looks quite redshifted and quite distant!

Cheers, Colin. The exploding stars might be because we pushed the image quite hard. Or perhaps there was some loose spider-web making diffraction spikes. (Really). Hopefully it wasn't because we just washed the main mirror and left scratchy streaks!

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Stunning part of the sky. Impressive star colour and essentially perfect processing of the galaxies. Another top image.

Thanks, Ray. Thrilled that you like it.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Great result

Reminds me of....

A fish.....swimming...somewhere.....

Thank you Peter. Perhaps 5101 is benthic and 5078 is pelagic.

Best,
MnT