This is indeed a very interesting and often overlooked region of our south pole area. I like your handling of the subject, particularly given the less than perfect conditions, you did have a pretty special rig though
. On an image processing front and only a minor observation, it does look slightly too smoothed to me and soft but I know you like'em this way and you know how I stand on that "noisey" issue
plus I know your conditions were less than optimal too, still looks great.
It was an image of this area by Jim Rifle that caused me to seriously look at investing in one of those amazing Centurion 18 scopes a couple of years ago but I decided it was too expensive and went with the more affordable ASA N12..?...
You probably perused it in your image history study on this region but here is Jim Rifles shot of the same region:
http://astroworks.com/gallery/ST2000GAL/ic4633.html
Not quite as good as yours or Jims version but I imaged the same region a couple of years ago too with a little 80ED and my trusty little SXVH9:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...74684/original
and (somewhat poorly) with a 135mm camera lens:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...16974/original
Nice work Jase
Mike