[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

You've managed some really nice detail in this faint galaxy. I photographed it maybe two years ago not having any idea what it was, only put in 2 hours or something and your image made mine look like a noisy gritty scant star halo

It is good to compare against the big professional scopes at times to see how we're going. In your case, you've not missed much at all

As an aside, there is a lot of IFN in the area too.

Thanks, Colin. We'd probably need a much wider field and Fred-like exposure to see the IFN, but what we found was fun.

Originally Posted by Bart

Those Outer Ha regions look good!

Thanks Bart!

Originally Posted by billdan

That came out really good M&T, you can tell its really faint, I'm surprised its got a lot of blue stars, must be still star generating.

Cheers
Bill

Aye, Bill, as you say it must have been generating hot new stars until very recently, and it probably still is where there's lots of Ha, but in those upper regions, it's probably just about stopped now as there seems to be no new gas to craft them from.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

You guys are really churning out images. This is a good one of a difficult object. It's my nemesis. Every time I try to photograph it something goes wrong (heavy dew, computer failure, guding goes pear shaped etc, etc)

Hi, Geoff. Hope you get a Gremlin-free crack at it in the future.

Best,
Mike and Trish