[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Absolutely spantacular!

unhesitatingly.

We know from having had a couple goes at it ourselves that this level of detail is extremely difficult to achieve. We came nowhere close. Not only the finest internal detail, but super-faint outer shells that make it far more special and interesting.

Ha ha Thanks M&T so glad you enjoyed this one...and here, cause you made me smile have another one of these

Originally Posted by alpal

That' looking great Mike - very deep.
I couldn't find the CTIO image - only the Hubble one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...f/NGC_3132.jpg

I notice you have gone deeper than Hubble as their pic doesn't show the outer shells.

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan the CTIO shot is here we gotta move to the Andes...we just gotta...

Originally Posted by glend

Inspiring Mike. I have tried it and i know how small it is. Great detail

Cheers Glan, yes I was quite hesitant to have a shot in case I wasted my time in sheety seeing and as Mr Murphys luck would have it the first night was poor seeing... which caused the slightly fuzzy bright stars...which I don't mind the look of actually, think Akira Fuji ..still..madly I had faith in my site and thought "ok sky gods I will take the colour data tonight then nah nah." Luckily the next three nights were at least average to good with half of one night settling to pretty excellent seeing, so I gambled..and I won take that seeing gods!

Originally Posted by Atmos

Magnificent Mike
Not sure what else to say but wow!

Thanks a lot Col, it's a bit of a specky object huh? especially with all those wrinkly outer shells

Originally Posted by topheart

Just wonderful - best I've seen of this object Mike!!
Cheers,
Tim

Yeah came out ok huh Timmy? cheers dude

Originally Posted by RickS

Super cool, Mikey

Cheers big ears

Originally Posted by Andy01

Great job Mike, a rarely imaged, interesting object very well captured

Thanks Andy, yes a tiny target like this takes some balls to bother shooting, especially without arc sec seeing but in the end I was pretty happy to finish with what I did

Originally Posted by el_draco

I really like the full frame, un-cropped version. Very sharp!

Ha ha cheers Rom...yes, displaying full frame images at small size creates the illusion of being sharper..a good imagers trick displaying 100% full res, or in this case 200% full res, is thrill seeker territory

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Spectaular Mike!!! I don't think I'll be getting this one through your finderscope.

No worries Kev, I only need my finder about twice in a typical evening of imaging (on start up and after a meridian flip), so plenty of spare time available

Originally Posted by Tony_

Magnificent Mike!

(Drops my effort to a new low level - thanks )

Tony.

Cheers Tony, naaah all images are to be enjoyed and respected

Originally Posted by astronobob

Absolutely extraordinary Mike - Major Credit to your work

Thanks Bob so glad you like it, an impresive little blighter huh?

Cheers everyone

Mike