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Old 31-05-2010, 12:03 AM
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Phil,

Oh, my God. That is utterly superb. I am at a loss for words.

This, all, despite being able to see the joins (and associated colour issues) quite easily, but, then, I'm a stickler for detail -- and, the detail is all there -- in the image!

In my opinon, this is, along with Jase's mammoth effort, one of the better images of the Rho Ophiuchii Complex that I've seen. One of the reasons for this is because everyone images this with their mosaics following the tail (and, I'd be inclined to do this, too), but, you've framed it 90-degrees to the norm, and in doing so picked up that seldom-imaged object to the left.

It's images like these which reinforce in my mind why this is the most beautiful part of the entire night sky.

I thought I had done a good job on this with my non-mosaic of this with the 180mm image from 4 years ago, but, I want to do even better and images like yours are just the inspiration.

Well done.

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