[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A wonderful image Mike. I like this a lot. I have never seen those rings in the O111 before. A great find. I'll have to go looking for them now!

Greg.

Thanks muchly Greg.

Originally Posted by RobF

Excellent pic. Thanks for sharing with us.

Cheers, Rob.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Really nice shot MnT, the detail is wonderful, especially those OIII bubbles! So many animals in these images that i don't see unless they're pointed out to me Entertaining with what you two and Michael spot out there in the vastness of space
I'll have to find out what patch of sky this is in, see whether I can actually image it from where I am house sitting at the moment.

I have spent many many hours figuring out how to fiddle with stars without creating ringing artefacts, getting better but still quite a ways off how I want my stars to look

Thanks Colin! The beast is in north-western Ara, almost Scorpius. I wake at night trying to think up better ways of handling magenta stars. It's easy if they're against blackness. The problem is when they're against strongly coloured and textured nebulosity.

Originally Posted by Andy01

Hi M&T, nice work on this Ara closeup.
I get the shoreline reference, and I can see the cat- can't spot the rocking horse though, it's like playing "Where's Wally" looking at your images
Great detail & the colours look pleasing.
Nice pickup with those O3 bubbles too
Cheers
Andy

Hi, Andy, and thanks. As Strong Mike says, the rocking horse looks more like the ears of a Border Collie.