[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Very kind of you, but I don't think I'd go quite that far



Thanks Paul. I wouldn't at all be upset with your prognostication but the Malin's are so hard to predict.

I will say this much, widefield and often very colourful DSLR vista's are often stunning or very pretty...but as there so many of them, I felt a void was being created in...dare I say "traditional"... long focal length, high resolution deep-sky images.

Getting tight, high-resolution stars is no trivial task and I hope images like this gain some popularity in the future.

I submitted nearly all long focal length this year, with only one image being wide field. It will be a tough competition for sure and now that wide field and narrow field are together once more it will be all the harder to win.

Incidentally what speed were you guiding with on the AOX? There are a few bright stars in that region and finding a bright guide star can be a problem sometimes but not there I think.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Paul,
It's incredibly sharp -
maybe the best picture ever taken in Australia?
It must have been a lucky night with sub arc second seeing?

cheers
Allan

Hmm certainly very sharp but can it be the best picture taken in Australia? With a few really sharp images myself and knowing there are few others out there with really sharp images of various targets it might be hard to call. Personally I would not like to say its the best but it certainly is a very nice image and one I would be very happy with myself.