[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Great photo Steve.

An amzing object.
Thanks for showing something new.


Ross.

Thanks Ross

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Boy it must be faint. Your gear has some significant photon sucking capacity and you may have had to stretch it more than you wanted. So for smaller aperture this might be well off the list.

Thanks Paul. It's not all that faint actually and probably should have made the NGC or IC.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Cool shot Steve. What's your field size?

Thanks Marc. It's 22.5 x 33.8 arcmin

Originally Posted by renormalised

Nice shot, Steve. Doesn't look too noisy to me, although I'm pretty tired and my brain's in go slow mode

I think some of that noise is actually really dim data in the background....probably more neb waiting to be revealed.

Thanks. I think you're right

Originally Posted by Logieberra

Really nice Steve.

I've never even heard of those obscure catalogues!!! Sharpless, Gum and RCW? A lifetime of things to image out there

Thanks Logan. This is the beauty of CCD imaging. There's lots of stuff out there that would be almost invisible without a CCD camera.