[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by markas

A strikingly colourful image with great detail - that 10hours L was really worthwhile!


(I'm in the process of imaging this galaxy, but I only have 2hours L so far, which is not enough! But I can vouch for the brown dust on the left of the image)


Great picture, Mike!


Mark

Thanks Mark, I knew the dust was there, I had imaged the region with the same scope but using much bigger chip (but 1/2 as much image scale) back in 2013. The trick is to make it look like faint dust and not noisy snow or worse..smoothed out...noisy snow

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a ripper image. A small but interesting galaxy. You got a lot of detail from it. Love the colour.

Your more recent images are longer than usual exposure times. Its paying dividends.

Greg.

Thanks Greg .. you think?..not that much I didn't think...although granted, a couple of images have been a little longer I guess

Originally Posted by alpal

Excellent image Mike,
it's also a much wider field than CHART32 so more galaxies to see.
In fact I think there are 100s of galaxies in your picture and
also what looks like galaxy groups.
Good to have you back.



cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan, glad you did your usual CHART32 comparison, knew ya would and I appreciate how you are always kind and complimentary when comparing them, even though those guys produce the best high res deep sky images in the world...

Originally Posted by jahnpahwa

Yeah, so much to like and to look at in this image! Thanks for sharing, Mike.

For those of us who have arrived during your hiatus, can you please list out the gear used? I see your OTA specs, but am really keen to know more! This is the sort image that I'd like to slowly progress toward.

Thanks,

JP

Hi JP, glad you liked the image

Now, know more?...what would you like to know? All my capture gear is listed at the image links but I guess, the scope rides on an AstroPhysics 1600GTO mount, inside a Sirius domed observatory (pushed around by hand all night...) located in the rural-residential fringe just north-west of Canberra.

Originally Posted by Placidus

A sumptuous, beautiful image Mike. The central bar is very sharply shown as a true bar, rather than a vague elongation. The intense blue of new stars in the (rather abundant) spiral arms is beautifully shown. :thum bsup:

And the background - We stopped counting at fifteen really clean, clear galaxies in the background all showing distinct morphology.

Super-well-done.

Sumptuous and beautiful...I like that

The faint distorted galaxy just to the right of NGC 5068, reminds me of a distant NGC 1316 or NGC 477

Mike