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Old 26-04-2018, 03:57 PM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Originally Posted by SimmoW View Post
Wow those stars are as perfect as I've ever seen Mike! And not a bad doodle either (always wanted to say that).

Love the glob nearby, adds nice context.
Cheers Simon, I agree the glob kinda completes the scene really, wouldn't be as cool without it

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Originally Posted by Placidus View Post
So many stars - astonishing! At 1:1 they are tiny points.

You've captured the subtle gradation from the intensely dark dust totally obscuring the stars behind, to the much more widespread but thinner dust which just changes the colour of what's behind.
It's certainly a very dusty area and the homogeneous spread of stars is quite amazing, not a gap to be seen over 16 square degrees ..it's a Stella carpet

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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies View Post
A rich and beautiful star field with an interesting brown smudge embedded in it! Nice work Mike.
Too right Marcus, certainly is rich, as I said to M&T that's 16 square degrees of wall to wall stars so evenly spread

Mike
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