The Horsehead and Alnitak region (Arrghh, another!)

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Duelling pistols, 50 paces... get it over and done with you two please

no duel here all light-hearted banter and besides, I am happy for Paul to suck up all the photons that ever existed

14 hours... some of us can DREAM of that. That's like 2 years worth around here.

Yeah, even more than I have done with the AG12 so far ...I have done 20hr and 29hr images before through with the Starfire but it was only 6" and slow at around F8 and fully portable too...I used to have the will...getting old

Mike

[astronobob (Bob)]

Totally WOW Marco, a magical view in this piece of work
Im amaized by all the areas objects & detail, spent 15 mins peering in through the full file, extraordinary job

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

An incredibly impressive view of this area Marco!

Cheers

Steve

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice image of a much favoured area Marco. Nice colouring and detail. Well done. I like that little knot you captured in the upper left. Such an interesting region. Martin suggested I go deeper still with the lum data that I did. I am sort of inclined to agree with him based on what I have been seeing in images I am preparing at present. Its incredible how strong the signal gets after a while. One just has to be patient to receive the results. Certainly a good example of that is Rolfs very deep Centaurus A.

Thanks Paul, indeed having lots of s/n helps revealing deeper and finer details, as you said Rolf's image was a great demonstration of this. Sure this can be achieved with larger apertures and/or longer exposure, since I cannot change the former I have to work on the latter

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Simply sublime. Gets the Oscar from me

Thanks Peter, appreciate your nomination

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Arrgh! sorry Marco - - I clearly need more sleep. no disrespect intended, it really is a cracker of an image

No problem, you are welcome!

Originally Posted by Marios

Someone call NASA we found a stolen Hubble pic.! AMAZING!!!!

Hehe, thanks Mario

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Littered with gems, you could keep adding every year creating a Magnum Opus of depth.

John.

Thanks John!

Originally Posted by LewisM

I am sending Marco my dental bills.

My jaw hit the desk, shattered all 3 teeth I had left. Now I can't be chewin' me baccy!

Peter said it already - S U B L I M E!

Oblige!

Originally Posted by LewisM

14 hours... some of us can DREAM of that. That's like 2 years worth around here.

Yep, this is one of the biggest advantage of automation: every single useful night is used!

Originally Posted by astronobob

Totally WOW Marco, a magical view in this piece of work
Im amaized by all the areas objects & detail, spent 15 mins peering in through the full file, extraordinary job

Thanks Bob!

Originally Posted by Stevec35

An incredibly impressive view of this area Marco!

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve, appreciate

Clear skies
Marco

[dvj (John)]

It's sooo good Marco, I don't need to comment.