[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Fantastic shot MnT!
It is just like a blue NGC 55, there are a lot of galaxies in the background, that 20” certainly sucks up the photons.

Thanks Colin. We'd had one go at this a long time ago, so had some idea of what to expect. Big faint things (rather than small bright things) seem to be the perfect target for our scope, given that we can collect lotsa light but our resolution is limited by seeing.

Originally Posted by topheart

Hi M+T,
Wow!
Lovely!
Great to see you back on deck camera -wise.
Cheers,
Tim

Thanks muchly Tim! We wanted to push on last night, but there was lots of cirrus cloud about.

Originally Posted by DJT

Nicely done MnT.
Been a while. Glad to see you back at it.

Interesting piece on this galaxy from SKA in SA using the KAT-7 as a bit of a path finder for later on.

http://public.ska.ac.za/kat-7/kat-7-data-reduction

D

Thanks so much for that, David. I think I actually understood that! I like the idea that a South African radio telescope is a kind of meerkat that can accurately measure the rotational profile of the neutral hydrogen, and distinguish between modified newtonian dynamics and the need for dark matter. We await the results!

Originally Posted by markas

Beautiful image of a very faint target - superb.

Mark

Thanks Mark. Glad you like it too.

Best,
Mike and Trish