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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Looks good Ray. I have started this very same patch about 5 times in the past three years. I got some half reasonable data on it a couple of years go but it was not enough. I might devote about 50 hours to it in the next year to capture it the way I have always wanted.
Interestingly I found with 30 minutes subs in Ha it still needed a lot of integration to control the background noise. I think one attempt I had 7 hours of data and it still had that speckled look to the background. A real challenge and I look forward to your completed results.
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thanks Paul. I suspect that the speckle is in fact stars - the longer I integrated, the more it resolved into points - it never looked like smoothing out, so I resisted the urge to use a heavy noise filter.
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Originally Posted by astronobob
Interesting region Ray, good data & looking forward to the added RGB 
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Thanks Bob.
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Originally Posted by RickS
A very interesting image, Ray, and the short narrowband subs are another confirmation of your calculations. Glad you managed to get some imaging time.
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Thanks Rick - sure was frustrating to see the moon free period slip by with no imaging. I would have liked longer subs, but lost the first 15 minute one due to a gust of wind, so I chickened out.
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Originally Posted by Larryp
Great work-it has a 3-D look to it.
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Thanks Laurie. Tried to keep processing to a minimum to retain as much of the appearance as possible
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Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne
Outstanding Ray!!! 
The resolution your getting your getting from your 8" is great!
It really is a treat to see these LMC nebs close up.
Look forward to mare.
Cheers,
Justin.
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thanks very much Justin. Been a real battle to get the scope under control, but it now does OK when conditions are good. Isn't the LMC an interesting part of the sky
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Excellent Ray, an amazing area with so much going on, love it.
I have started on this area too, so far I only have 6 weeks worth of exposure but I am hoping for about 3 months if I can, I recon then it will look so real that it will jump out of the page and grab Fred by the gonads
Ok, poor humour....
Mike 
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Bugga - made me laugh out loud and the missus looked at me strange. Thanks Mike.
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Originally Posted by multiweb
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Thanks Marc and thanks for your help with the scope
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Wow. Love it.
Its great to see so many super images of these great nebs int he LMC.
Greg.
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Hi Greg. I had no idea there was so much detail visible in the LMC - what a fascinating region it is.
Regards Ray