[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

That's awesome Ray

Thanks Suavi!

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

Wow what a fascinating piece of treasure you dug up Ray

Hi Dunk - this was fun

Originally Posted by alocky

This has got to be the coolest thing I've seen! Gravitational lensing in an amateur image.
That's an astonishing result, even if it isn't pretty!

Thanks Andrew. It was really cool to see the thing develop in the processing and it sure is an astonishing thing.

Originally Posted by RickS

Well done, Ray That's incredibly cool. Doesn't really look that noisy, but maybe that's more of a reflection on me than the data

Thanks Rick. It took a bit of work getting rid of some of the blotchiness, but it is still there.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

How cool is that nice work....and to think there are people who spend $70K just on an OTA to image and re-image and repro NGC 253, Cen A and Eta Carina ....man!...sheesh, THIS is astro imaging! Awesome

Mike

thanks Mike. yeah, this was fun stuff. Early on, it felt a bit like I was wasting good sky though - the seeing had to be good to get anything useful down so low and some pretty targets were missed.

Originally Posted by redbeard

Hi Ray,

Fantastic!

Great effort.

Cheers,

Damien.

thanks very much Damien !