[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Very nice Ray, lovely larger galaxy down the bottom and scatterings of tiny ones throughout the field.
The high res version is wonderful to look around

thanks Colin - appreciated

Originally Posted by el_draco

That is a really nice shot!

thanks very much Rom!

Originally Posted by Placidus

Truly excellent, Ray. Stunning. A wide enough FOV to get the globular in the image, but also to see the sharp details of the face-on spiral at the bottom. Great work.

thanks for the kind comments M&T. it is good to have a camera with enough real estate to catch a bit of this type of scene.

Originally Posted by atalas

Ray a very beautiful shot of this objectsome nice little galaxies in the background as well.....very impressive work.

thanks a lot for the encouragement Louie.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Holy cow I nearly fell off my chair.

That image is drop dead gorgeous.

That is a superb image Ray, the stars are absolutely perfect as well.

My hat is off to you sir.

Now that is a definitive image for this new camera. You should spread that around as an example of what it can do in the right hands.

How long though did it take to process all those images? Is there special software that stacks them all quickly? CCDstack would laugh at me if I tried to stack that many images.

Greg.

Hi Greg - great comments, thanks. The data handling took a few hours from memory (did not measure though). flat and bias cal in Nebulosity (very fast), alignment, stacking and processing in PixInsight. I have a fairly modern quad core i7 with 16G RAM, which is probably almost a necessary adjunct to this chip - have recently processed a run of almost 1000 ROI subs with no dramas using PI.

Originally Posted by RickS

A fantastic result, Ray!

Cheers,
Rick.

thanks very much Rick!

Originally Posted by DJScotty

WOW. That is beautiful.
The more I see the ZWO cameras in action, the more I want one...

Absolutely stunning Ray.

Scott

Thank you Scott. Yes, the camera has it's own idiosyncrasies, but it is fundamentally a very capable design - full marks to ZWO for getting to a high standard with their first big DSO camera.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice, very nice image. There is so much to like. I really like the star colours, subtle but evident, great detail and not over sharpenned. Resolution in the globular is superb and I really like the whispy detail in the reflection nebula.

Thanks Paul. as you know, clear sky has been a bit hard to find down this way, so it was pleasing to get enough to produce an image. I didn't do any sharpening - the main feature of this object is the soft cloudiness - appreciate your comment on that

regards Ray.