[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

http://www.astrobin.com/full/311097/C/

Here is your competition MnT

Thanks Colin, that's a lovely shot. They used a 20 inch scope, same 16803 camera chip, hugely higher and drier location, and nice colour, but far fewer hours of H-alpha than ours.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Naaah Col, while that's pretty ok, that's little better than my now rather mediocre version done back in 2009 (was a marathon effort for me then) with the 6" Starfire and insensitive and noisy 11000 chip.

Mike and Trish's image on the other hand...well, it is clearly in the orbiting space observatory league!! see attached image by GALEX!



Mike

Thanks Mike! We had some pretty strong wind here the other day, and it almost was an orbiting space observatory.