Wow, thanks so much everyone, glad you all enjoyed this one
Was a bit of a "Hmmm?..what can I image while waiting for my main target to rise..?" sort of target
Overall I was pretty happy with how the final image came together, it wasn't the best seeing I get here but was still good enough to bother tackling such a target
As far as focal length goes, a search of other images of this object out there, makes it very clear that apart from a small handful of shots taken from excellent sites with sub arc sec seeing and big RC's, my result stacks up to, or exceeds, most versions taken with much longer focal length scopes
. As I have said before, in the end it is "image scale" that counts and not focal length as such, of course the seeing quality is No. 1 and finally your optical quality (plus AO if you have it), that produce the resolution
Colin, hmmm?..do you not read the image credits under images mate
....been putting all that info under every image at my website for ooooh?..over 10 years now dude
Mark my image scale is 0.84"/pix (also in my image credits
)
Andrew, thanks mate and yes through a big scope under good seeing at high power I would imagine it would be a bit like the
Homunculus around Eta Carina, hard to replicate the moments of good seeing when the fine stuff shows up in a big dob...of course you see no colour though
..maybe a touch of orange in the Homunculus.
Mike and Trish, thanks for the subservient M&M's
Thanks again all who commented
Mike
did I use enough emoticons...?
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...sorry
. A favourite visual target of mine through a scope on a steady night 
