[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by codemonkey

Well I was planning on having a crack at the Helix when I get my new scope up and running, but I don't think I'll bother now having seen this one!

More seriously, that's a very impressive effort there guys; certainly setting the benchmark.

To be picky, there's a series of slightly diagonal lines visible on the left of the frame, I'm not sure if these are the result of blending in that unbinned data, but the image would be improved if you were able to clean that up. Anyway, that's not meant to detract from what is probably the deepest helix I've seen and will likely see for along time. Great job guys!

Thanks Lee. We're sure your take will be very different. The diagonal lines are in the 2x2 version, so not related to blending. They're going to be due to integer roundoff somewhere along the way. They'll take a lot of tracking down.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Sensor me if required but holy fooking crap , will ya look at that..the faint features revealed are so captivating...
La Stupenda.


Mike

Thanks muchly, Mike. Thrilled that you like it too. It's nowhere near as 'pretty' as a less deep but more clean and contrasty version, yet those super-faint bits must be telling an interesting story about what's going on, if only we understood the language.

Best,
MnT