[David Fitz-Henr]

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Detail is amazing David right into the core of the globular, there is even a couple of beautiful spiral galaxies in there one lower left. Looks wonderful at full size.

John.

Thanks John, there was excellent seeing on the night I took the luminance so the resolution is at peak value for the scope.

Originally Posted by alpal

Great pic David & I like that spiral galaxy too.

Thanks Allan!

Originally Posted by Larryp

Top notch, David! Beautiful colours

Thanks Larry!

Originally Posted by Gem

Superb!!!
Image of the week material!

Thanks Grant!

Originally Posted by Dennis

A beautiful image, I really enjoyed panning this incredible view and only wished my 1920x1200 monitor was larger so I could take it in all at once, although scrolling around was enjoyable as each exquisite sub-object slid into view. The clarity and detail is quite breathtaking.

Cheers

Dennis

Thanks Dennis; great comments much appreciated!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Beautiful image. My only complaint is the framing cut off a small part of the glob. Otherwise, wow, that is a super Corona Australis. This newt of yours is sensational and beautiful processing as well.

I see you got a couple of great looking spiral galaxies there as well. That one on the left looks like M101.

Greg.

Thanks Greg! I meant to have the glob hugging the top but it went a bit higher than intended; still, put it down to artistic licence showing the cosmos flowing on to infinity and beyond ...

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

That is one fine image David. The full size image shows a wealth of detail and is very interesting looking at the center of the nebula and the galaxy looks very cool. I spent around the same amount of exposure time on this target and it shows how much detail a 12.5" can gain over a 4" scope. Resolution is very nice.

Maybe just a touch red in the dust for me, but still a fab image.

Thanks Paul! Actually I looked at various images of the region on the web and they all rendered the dust areas quite dark; on stretching the image I thought that there was a bit of detail that showed up in the darker areas that could be brought out further. These darker areas tended to be redder in my data so it sort of came out as a consequence of my stretching.

Originally Posted by DJT

Thats a beautiful image, marvelous colours.

Thanks David!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Sensational David, the colour was a while coming but wow!

The central nebula looks very 3D, beautiful

Mike

Thanks Mike; actually probably a good thing that the colour was a while coming as it gave my processing skills a chance to catch up somewhat with the quality of luminance data I had collected