[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great capture guys! Such a cool object, hard to take from 33deg S too, nicely done Yes that extension is well seen in several other images, I wonder what caused it? Looks like some sort of expanding bubble breakthrough ...maybe the Millennium Falcon escaping an Imperial Starship

Mike

Thanks Mike! The Starship theory is very attractive, but the burst bubble explanation has the advantage that it's been observed in other SNR's.

Originally Posted by RickS

The Gold Coast Bulletin has a pic of a crab with one white claw and a likeness of Michael Jackson on its carapace, but yours is a lot more impressive M&T! Shame about the weather and technical difficulties, but still a good result.

The extension is very cool too. I must have a dig around for one of those "time lapse" images of the crab and see if there's anything interesting detectable in that region.

Cheers,
Rick.

Cheers, Rick. Glad we can't see Mr Jackson in our image.

Originally Posted by billdan

Well done M&T, I love the gold and silver colour scheme with the blue glow around the edges. Not sure how you got 3 distinct colours from bi-colour data, must something to do with your palette rotation.

Cheers
Bill

Thanks Bill. Wild guess about the colours: With any two complementary colours (opposites on the colour wheel), say red and cyan, or yellow and blue, or green and magenta, mixing them 50-50 will produce white, and other ratios will produce various pastel shades that we could give names to.

Cheers,
M & T