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Originally Posted by codemonkey
Very nice!
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Ta, Lee!
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Originally Posted by troypiggo
That's a lovely NGC55. I love that you guys plan your framing/composition (considering that star pair etc) rather than just centre the target and blast away. The cluster of galaxies at about 7 o'clock is very nice and adds to it as well.
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Thanks Troy. It's humbling / inspiring to think that each of those distant galaxies is another example of something equally grand, and the shapeless orange ones are the wreckage of multiple galaxies that were once so grand, yet those two stars at the bottom are already bigger than anything we can conceive of.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
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Hi, Marc! It's certainly not the sharpness of the optics that brings out all the distant ones; it's the long exposure and the huge collecting area.
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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
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Thanks so much for your praise and encouragement Kevin, much appreciated. APOD's of late seem to be reserved for Norwegian auroras and Milky Ways rising over icy troll's tongues. One can understand their wanting to show off rockets heading toward the sun, but noctilucent clouds and geysers seem more picturesque than astronomical. We reckon we're in better company here on IIS.
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
That's nice MnT. Colour looks really good. Lots of background galaxies too.
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Thanks Paul.
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Originally Posted by Geoff45
You’ve done a nice job in terms of sharpness, detail, colour and composition, although I must admit that ngc55 is not a galaxy that I particularly like.
Geoff
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Ta Geoff. Aye, it looks more like a train wreck than a beautiful spiral, but we like the intense star formation. Amazing to think that each of those blue dots is another Tarantula. Speculating wildly, if anything lives there it would have to be comfortable with lots of radiation and interesting times.