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Hi Eddie
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Hi Dennis! Good to hear from you!
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Well, 8 hours is a marathon effort but what a fabulous result! I am astonished at the quality of the image and the detail revealed. From a viewer’s perspective, it was certainly worth the energy and effort you have invested in acquiring and processing this superb portrait. It reveals so much that I cannot recollect having seen before within the amateur community, or even the professional sites/publications I have browsed.
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Agreed! I did a bit of web searching and there have been considerable professional studies of the Coalsack. Parkes was instrumental in one of them, discovering ancient supernova shells around it, but I found little mention of hidden HII regions in there. Certainly I couldn't find other images of it.
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Considering you are doing all this from the light polluted GC, I take my hat of to you for a job so very well done. You’re gonna have to move to one of the poles to find nights longer than 8 hours now!
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I think the best I can hope for would be a darker location with clean/clear horizons...Leyburn is looking better all the time!
Unfortunately Crux is already setting into the Brisbane light dome around Astrofest time, so its not a great target for this time of year.
All the best