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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Here's another Wallaroo deep special 
This time I had a few things against me, namely the moon which I had to wait to set before starting, thus cutting imaging time down, in the end I had to collect the colour data when the moon was up 
As a result of the moon it took two nights to gather the 5.5hrs of data. The first night was pretty reasonable seeing but the second night was very windy and this took its toll and softened all my night two data  In the end I chucked some subs but not having the luxury of a permanent setup yet, I am miserly with my chucking  
Once again I have gone for depth over pure aesthetics (ie a tad noisy) but it's not too bad..besides, look at the faint details, what a messy twisted galaxy this is...must have an interesting history?
Anyway... here it is 
Full Frame colour ** Check out the Superman galaxy at the very bottom of the image
High contrast B&W to show the full extensions of NGC 1316 and Milky Way Cirrus
Comparison with UK Schmidt to show the extreme depth achieved
Idiot with many layers on to brave the icy wind 
This is fun....  not the icy wind though...
Mike |
Wow Mike, what an incredible image! It is on my todo as well, almost complete the collection of RGB but still missing the Luminance... but now where is the point for me to go ahead with such an unreachable result in front of me ?
Seriously mate you got an amazing image there, you deserve all the accolades and more for this. Now, please rotate the OTA so the spikes have the same orientation of the UKS' so can start puzzling who's who
Marco