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Old 02-07-2024, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike View Post

Thanks Al, yeah always a lover of seeing a myriad of background galaxies but it was the massive extended halo with spiral structure that made me swoon this time

Mike
Hi Mike,
you're right and I see a definite place for long exposure images
taken with fast Newts. - extreme deep fields.
Nothing else seems to pick up those faint halos so well.
Is it Rolf Olsen who pioneered that?
NGC5128 with NASA data added showed us the way:
https://www.rolfolsenastrophotograph...ld/i-XH3VRsC/A

cheers
Allan
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