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Mike,
10 and a half out of 10 for your ultra-deep imaging effort on Centaurus A.......Skill, knowledge, guts, and persistence....
No wonder I don't wish to do my own imaging....I would be scared to compete with people like you,
and anyway... my real knowledge and interest lies in other areas of astronomy (e.g. galaxy morphology and properties)
Oddly, one of the problems that amateurs will face when (and not if) they discover something very weird and new in their ultra-deep images will be actually getting the attention of a professional astronomer......I do find anomalies/peculiarities in existing galaxy images from time to time, which are genuinely new and novel morphologies (because I can do galaxy classifications about as well as a trained professional astronomer), yet I find that I can wave my hands in front of the "pros" and still they hardly notice what I am saying sometimes......they tend to be so specialized that they work on a narrowly focused project for a long time, and won't look sideways at something that is not "their project of the month".
cheers, robert
P.S. I note that in the extremely deep Image that ken (ballaratdragons) displayed of the Centaurus Cluster of galaxies, there appears to be a lot of intracluster (= inter-galaxy) light.
It is proven that in some clusters of galaxies, 10 percent of the total cluster light can come from stars floating in between the galaxies. Extraordinary, I know, yet as Obi Wan Kenobi said "these are the truths that we must cling to."
For more about inter-galaxy stars, do a google search on the following terms:
"Freeman + Arnaboldi + Intracluster"
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