[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by atalas

That object is so cool guys....wonderful structure bubble like

Thanks Louie. The OIII bubble looks a bit like an eyeball in cross section.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

That's a tough target and you made good use of those 20"s. I reckon I would need to do at least 30 hours of more with the Newtonian to come close to what you have here and maybe nearly 50 hours with the RC.

Thanks Paul. As well as aperture and time, what it perhaps really needs is an observatory somewhere very high and dry like the Atacama, so that the stars would be 40,000 unobtrusive pin-points instead of 40,000 great big blurry beacons blocking the view.

Cheers,
MnT