[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Cool looking image for such a short amount of integration time. What are you sub exposure lengths? Are you still using 10 minutes? Any idea what your background ADU is on the subs?

Nice image.

I use only 5min subs actually, to avoid differential flexure (yeah I know, I should do something about it..I will, I will...). checking the peak of the histogram curve, ADU background on a single 5min sub is about 2500, on a 90 min stack of 5min subs about 500...?

Originally Posted by multiweb

Pure eye candy. Lovely field and resolution.

Cheers Marc, sweet

Originally Posted by cybereye

Pavrotti - how could you forget him! But here's one of my favourite Italian artists with a tune that's just perfect for a rousing sing-a-long.... and no it's not Joe Dolce!! No, this song, Gli altri siamo noi, is one that I love to sing along to and the sentiments behind it are just as current today as they were back in the early 90's.

The title says it all and from your fantastic image it's pretty obvious we are!! I can just imagine it now, the hills of Wallaroo would definitely come alive with this blasting across the countryside...

Cheers,
Mario

Yes, agree about the title...but sorry, Pav rules

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Very nice Mike! I love fields like this - stretches the imagination huh?

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus, yes it is fields such as this that I really wanted to use this scope for, there was no chance under the blurry and heavily light polluted skies of Newcastle hence the monopoly on colourful emission nebulae with NB filters for over a year.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

would have been more mike but your just teasing with the data. how much more would you have got in that shot if you went longer? its a travesty

Not that much really, there is some foreground galactic cirrus in there but although there was little wind and average seeing, the Lum was taken on a night of poor transparency and some high cloud and the RGB with a near full moob, so I couldn't do a good job of revealing the galactic cirrus. It's there but has been corrupted by gradient removal anmd high cloud, so I am not sure what is GC and what is redistributed background and or Earth cloud so I didn't try and enhance it.

Originally Posted by alpal

Mike

Yes it's interesting to see a galaxy field as part of a super-structure & filaments in the Universe.

Note: your link to NGC 5054,
the image has a typo - it says NGC 5044.

This was the only other image I could find of NGC 5054:

http://server5.wikisky.org/starview?...5054&locale=SR

cheers
Allan

Cheers Allan, not an often imaged galaxy area actually and I have fixed that typo, thanks

Mike