[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Another great shot there Rick That shiny bronze star looks awesome and really contrasts with the colourful spiral, then you look over to the left and there's that cool blue spiral that looks like it is from a comic book...nice!

Thanks, Mike! It is a very cool grouping. The mag 6.5 star in the middle was a real processing challenge.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Rick,
What a beautiful picture.
there are so many other galaxies as well.
It made me look at this one too:
http://afesan.es/Deepspace/Hickson%2...enatici%29.jpg

Thanks, Allan. There are a few nice images of HCG68 around including that one. I was kicking myself that we didn't manage to get NGC5371 in our field too.