[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Really beautiful and very sparkly

When exploring the image, my imagination was activated and I could almost see the Startrek somewhere in there, searching for its way home...

As for the technical side, 1hr subs at 0.55 arcseconds per pixel... I will keep on dreaming

Thanks muchly, Suavi. Hope we haven't over-sharpened it. Perhaps half a tad.

The question of how long an exposure is best for us is still slightly unanswered. I often wonder if some photo-electrons that one has captured early in an exposure ever leak away late in the exposure. Hope not.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nice and colorful. Just how I like it.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve!

Originally Posted by RickS

Very cool, M&T! The small intriguing fuzzies in that region are shown in great glory NGC 7162A is a fascinating object.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick. There were more than we expected. The two colliding galaxies were a bonus.

Originally Posted by el_draco

Cripes, there's a lot of galaxies in the background. Very cool!

Cheers, Rom. Nice to hear from you.

Originally Posted by Atmos

That's fantastic MnT, love the giant elliptical and the galaxy at the top of the frame that kinda looks like a cross between an irregular dwarf and a disrupted spiral.

Thanks Colin. Agreed.

Originally Posted by mountainjoo

Wow, lots of interesting finds in the background. Do you know what the smudge in the middle of the far left is? Or what the green blob roughly 2/3 from center to top right is? I've attached small crops from these regions.

Hi, Jerome. We agree with Colin's comment that the blob toward 9 o'clock is almost certainly a dwarf galaxy which just happens to have a couple foreground stars confusing the picture. We're also tempted by Colin's explanation that the aqua star could be a quasar. We once photographed a galaxy in Libra which had nineteen catalogued quasars in the image. They tended to be implausible super-saturated blues, which made them easy to find. Dunno. Could be just an artefact.

Originally Posted by p1taylor

That is really good.

peter

Hi, Peter, Lovely to hear from you. Glad you like it.

Originally Posted by Atmos

That smudge looks like an irregular galaxy. As for the green "star", I am thinking red shifted luminous object. A quasar could potentially be the culprit. Could always plate solve the region and get exact coordinates on that blob.

Thanks Colin - we think your explanations are very good. Don't have any super-good plate solving capability against a big catalogue. Next free moment I'll plate solve roughly against Tycho, find the coords of the probable galaxy, and see what I can find. Anyone beats me to it, so much the better.

This shot was interesting in that even after 3 nights (over two consecutive rainy months) it was looking pretty boring, but yesterday we added just 9 hours of colour, and Hey, Presto! it looked much more endearing.