[richardo (Rich)]

Originally Posted by Paddy

Very nice indeed!

Thanks Patrick!

Originally Posted by marco

Excellent image and extremely smooth and flat background, great job
Very interesting subject

Clear Skies
Marco

Cheers for the nice comments Marco!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I have been looking at this and your other Hyrda galaxy cluster. Man they are 2 really nice images. Your best so far?

Wonderful. Such nice colour and detail. Great star colours.

Are your skies really dark? Spectacular images Rich. Really nice.

Greg.

Thanks Greg... I think I've finally got the measure of what this camera likes in the way of processing... what it needs.
Yes, my skies can be pretty epic at times, although they arn't as good as they use to be when I first started visually back 18 years ago. Bit hit and miss now so with the bennifit of an observatory it helps no end!. still, I have to limit my imaging from south (usually where the wind comes from at night) around to the north so keeping things on the east side of the mount as gem flipping will expose me to the ever increasing town lights to my west.

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

An awesome image Rich ... a visual smorgasbord! Framing looks fine to me. Processing is spot on! Well done!!

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks a heap Marcus!! Had a look around the field before I settled with this view. Not use to getting two objects into one image!

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very nice Rich. A lovely pair of galaxies with so many in the background. As Greg has stated your skies must be wonderful, maybe just a bit of inversion from the sea. Not having a huge city close by must be a big plus. The skies here are dark but the thermals from the surrounding hills soon ruin what should be great.

The image seems to have a slight haze to it and I just wonder if it is moisture in the air around you.
I still love what a big newt can produce.
Hats off to you Mate this is a corker.

Hey Doug, cheers for the top comments..
Yes as explained to Greg, my skies when they are good are very good. However and as you observed, and I noticed as well, the stars are fairly fuzzy, this depicting the conditions on both nights. There has been a fair amount of surf around here in the past week and with the evening southerly winds, this tends to bring it back on land here. Generally there's a layer up to 40 degrees that can be quite unsettled. The out of season rains have made for lots of growth and this has helped keep the dust down this year.. Generally summer here is just dusty and hot... many times not real good for imaging.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Just wonderful. I can't get enough of these deep galaxy fields. Very well done, and the processing is superm. I also very much like the subtle, but distinct, colours.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the great comments Rolf!!

Originally Posted by atalas

Wonderful work Rich!

Cheers Louie....

A big thanks you guys for your great encouragement..
Always very much appreciated

All the best for now
Rich