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Originally Posted by Placidus
A truly wonderful image, Paul.
We think we can see very faint but clear spiral arms extending out to at least twice the obvious diameter of the galaxy.
Exquisite colour. Lots of sharp detail: the nights of good seeing have won.
Best,
MnT
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Thanks MnT. You are right the arms extend out a long way. I can see them clearly on my screen but maybe that is set a little too bright. They were quite faint and I had to get a lot of hours on the luminance to bring them out. A larger scope would easily show them without doing too many hours. The surrounding star field does not help either. It's a really busy area with regard to stars.