[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by dvj

Peter, I'm a great fan of gray scale images like this. I am wondering if the faint halos around the bright stars are atmospheric effects, filter artifacts, or someting with in the optics of the RHA? I often get fog in Coonabarabran and get resulting halos.

Cheers,

j

Thanks, wasn't the best of nights...halos are probably due some Cirrus cloud

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

Excelent detail!

-Tom

Thanks Tom... Hopefully colour to follow soon.

Originally Posted by MrB

Nice one Peter, So many faint fuzzies!

Yeah I can see it too, about 1/2 way between M83 and the right of frame.
Certainly looks like an MP but could be an edge-on spiral?

Ta, Did you notice the very faint background "stars"...quite a few are oddly shaped, I suspect this hints at their true galactic nature.

Originally Posted by Octane

WOW.

H

Thanks H!

Originally Posted by alpal

Wow -
the minor planet is bottom center.
There are so many galaxys there.

That's a perfect wide field shot.
That square format is great - you're not losing any data.

Thanks for posting it.

Yep, MP at about 6 o'clock

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

Wow, thats simply staggering to look at Peter.

I am not sure, but I think there might be 2 MP trails visible. I can see the large one as well as another with the same profile but shorter by a bit and a little bit dimmer, orientation and length look similar though?

Could there be two in there?

Cheers

Chris

Could be.

Originally Posted by allan gould

There literally are 100+ faint fuzzies in that single shot, Peter. It's amazing the resolution of the scope. I'm going to have a go and see what I can resolve with my refractor at about half that scale. Took a while but found your MP.
Thanks for posting.

Thanks Alan.

Originally Posted by kinetic

Great stuff Peter, crisp across the frame.
Any idea of the MP identity?

Steve

Ta, as for the MP, Wouldn't have a clue... for those with suitable software, data taken on April 25th at about 10pm Australian eastern time