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Originally Posted by tornado33
Great to see imagery from the new property, nice and deep one at that and it beats having to travel to a dark site.
The bright H2 regions really stand out well too
Scott
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Howdy Scott, haven't heard from you in a while, how's it hanging mate?
Yes out of Murkville Newastle and under crisp clean rural Canberran skies now, it's unreal. Funny, I'm already starting to complain about having to setup in my own backyard
...the Sirius dome will be a welcome addition for sure
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Originally Posted by RobF
Wowser - looks like a Sidonio Deep Field! 
Awesome 253 Mike, and great to see the new site is living up to and exceeding promise. |
Cheers Rob, yes although the location is a sensible compromise between distance and proximity to Canberra ie within 30min commute of the city (outside peak hour), as expected the skies are still amazingly good none the less
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Originally Posted by dvj
Pretty nice Mike. I like the faint galaxies the best. BTW, I sold my ASA N12. Finally got it working too.
jg
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Which one do you like the best?
Shame about the ASA N12, certainly glad I had another go with Orion Optics, that's for sure, I dreamed of taking these sorts of deep images way back in 2006...it only took me 6 years
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Originally Posted by SkyViking
Nice collection of distant galaxies Mike I thought about doing something similar with my Cartwheel galaxy image, but I didn't know where to start, lol. Sculptor is just littered with these everywhere, pretty amazing. |
Yes indeed, as my NGC 1316 image illustrates too, puny APO's and 50hr exposures
...bah! viva la fast Newtonian and aperture
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Originally Posted by alexandre
Hello Mike!!
Ah YES !!
beautiful image !!!
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Thanks Alex
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Originally Posted by alistairsam
Hi Mike,
I'm always in awe of your images as anyone would be, but this one somehow doesn't do it for me. I'm just a beginner so maybe I'm missing something that others have seen, maybe its the blue, but it looks kind of artificial to me.
the small sized full frame illustrates that. just my honest opinion. Look forward to more though.
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Hey fair enough Alistair, I appreciate your honesty, not sure I can do anything about that aspect now though
....just appreciate the unique aspects rather than the pure aesthetics I guess? NGC 253 is rarely image in this way, very few images of the galaxy show the extensive background galaxy swarms and even less reveal the outer halo
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Originally Posted by Tandum
Looks like you finally got out of Dodge ...
On ya mike ....
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Yep, from the big smoke to the big open Universe....
MIke