[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Suspect the seeing let you down, but love the depth of the image.

Thanks Peter. Seeing was so bad on one night (about 3.5 sec arc) we gave up in disgust. It was blowing such a gale that we were worried about the structural integrity of the open flaps on the dome.

Originally Posted by willik

A little bit out of focus but still a very nice image not a easy target
Martin

Thanks Martin.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great stuff guys, never before seen on IIS and now twice in under a month

Very interesting to compare our results actually, looking at the more diffuse extensions there is little or no difference in depth but as expected, the superior aperture has snuck just a little deeper on point sources...although, I don't apply decon to my star fields so there are probably some faint stars lurking in the background of my data?..I just hate spots in my background that you can't distinguish form stars. Comparing the detail in some surrounding galaxies I may just have had a little better seeing?.. oooor, we just used different processing approaches..? As you say, you look to have revealed some detail in the leading (left) edge of the main fan shaped tidal tail, which although subtle is indeed very cool. I am thinking from the look of the rest of the image, you used some solid extraction techniques here..? which is also cool, I love heavy extraction to go deep and reveal new things! ...image noise is overrated!

Overall another great use of a great instrument guys and great to see big high end equipment hitting interesting things, rather than the same ol samo

Mike

Confession: Trish was most impressed by your image, and strongly suggested that we have a go. Yours is clearly much sharper. Some of that is seeing. Some of it is perhaps that you have a superb instrument and we have a light bucket.

Originally Posted by RickS

Great work on the faint stuff, M&T

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick!

Originally Posted by Atmos

Comparing all of the different versions... they’re all pretty awesome in their own rights
Very nice shot M&T

Thanks, Colin. Perhaps we should have tackled this in the dead of Winter, when seeing tends to be better.

We suspect we're going to have to go off air very shortly. We suspect the seal on the camera chip chamber has failed, and we are getting ice crystals forming. Every night is worse than the night before.