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Very nice images Paul.
As a comparison I am comparing these two images to David Malins published in his most excellent book "The Invisible Universe", published in 1999.
Your images demonstrate just how far amateur equipment has advanced over the last 10 years.
I think your image of Cent A is exceptional, it reveals a great amount of quite delicate structure in the dust lane. It loses very little in comparison to the photographic plate of Davids.
When I first looked at your image of 3579 a rather elongated star within a tight loop of nebulosity toward the bottom of the main part of the nebula and to the left of centre caught my eye. This is actually two stars that appear in Davids image with clear separation. I realize that there is no comparison between the AAT and a Takahashi refractor but the detail that you have captured, albeit on a smaller scale is very impressive when compared to the images in Davids book.
Regards
Trevor
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