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Old 07-02-2011, 12:22 PM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons View Post
Here's mine Mike. From back in January 2009

Widefield of most of the whole Cluster (or what would fit on the chip)
and a crop showing the main area of the cluster

Antlia Galaxy Cluster in the constellation Antlia.

ED80, Canon 350d, 5 x 15min @ 800iso, INCR, stacked in Registax 3, processed in PhotoShop CS.
Great field Kenny, something about masses of faint fuzzies in a vast field that a specy colourful neb just can't match huh?

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Originally Posted by Rob_K View Post
Lovely shooting Mike! Not a huge amount of luck with the little ring galaxy - overlaid a heap of galaxy catalogues in Aladin and the nearest I could come up with was GALEX J094558.7-311304, but it doesn't seem to be a perfect match. Bit beyond me to access the GALEX databases from their site, but they are online:
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/

Other people have imaged it -
http://panther-observatory.com/galle...NGC2997_F9.htm

Great shooting too Ken!!

Cheers -
Cheers Robbo

Funny, tyhe little ring galaxy is not that faint really..? Maybe it's part of the galaxy after all...don't think so though

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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
Very nice Mike. It is a great target.

You were brave doing HaRGB knowing you travel for your setup. It turned out well though. You got some nice detail there as usual more than I would have expected. Why did you decide to do Ha instead of luminance?

I'll have to take some Ha as well to bring out the core more.

Greg.
Ooops sorry, missprint t'was a LRGB ...some Ha might be good though. Yeees travel.....I know I harp on but fair shake of the sauce bottle and suck of the sav sheesh, I recon I will go mad, really need a bigger faster scope huh? ...and an observatory

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Originally Posted by SkyViking View Post
Wonderful as usual Mike, I just love these galaxy vistas. Can't wait to get my new camera so I can take some proper deep fields
Thanks Rolf
Yes the new camera will be an epiphany for you

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Beautiful galaxy.
yes she is Marc...nearly as beautiful as the lagoon
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