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Originally Posted by Placidus
A very evocative image. A white dwarf shuffles off its mortal coil, cape, petals. The beautiful but distant background galaxies emphasize the loneliness.
You must have been well below the one photon per minute level. Any idea of the actual surface brightness?
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Thanks, M&T! I can't find data on surface brightness but a very rough, and possibly wildly inaccurate, back of the envelope calculation gives a result of 24 mag/arcsec^2.
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Originally Posted by topheart
A wonderful image....awesome stuff at every level.
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Thanks, Tim.
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Really nice job Rick, love the saturation, everything just pops and stands out nicely 
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Ta, Colin. Wasn't sure if I'd overdone the saturation and I'm sure some folks will find it too gaudy
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Wow, you don't see images like that every day!
As Spock would say - "Fascinating"...
Well done on the obscure target selection & resulting image 
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Thanks, Andy! I have some even more obscure ones on the list but they take a lot of imaging time.