Massive Fornax Galaxy Cluster

[orestis]

Wow an amazing image love ngc 1365,so much detail.
You should submit it to apod its worth being up there.

Great image

regards orestis

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by sjastro

Excellent image Mike.

Steven

Thanks so much Steve

Originally Posted by michaellxv

Wow, what can I say.

I hope you don't mind, I made a negative and printed it to help me find some of these.

No not at all Mike, in fact I have made some negative versions myself (I always do lots of variatins and crops of my fields ) so I might even post'em

Glad the shot was useful, I originally intended to do many more hours but the fortitude and determination necessary to do multiple nights with a largely portable imaging rig back and forth to a dark site is only with me a couple of times a year unfortunately

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by orestis

Wow an amazing image love ngc 1365,so much detail.
You should submit it to apod its worth being up there.

Great image

regards orestis

Thanks Orestis

Yes I have submitted it to APOD but the selection process for that site is really kind of a black art in itself and there are so many great images submitted it must be hard for Jerry and Rob to choose even as many as one a day from the hundreds submitted or archived every day ...although I do see a lot of Acropolis with moon/sun/analima etc in the frame shots getting selected for display...maybe I should take my next deep sky image from Athens

Mike

[bluescope]

Very nice fov with loads more faint fuzzies lurking in the background and the core detail of 1365 is great ... well done Mike !

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by bluescope

Very nice fov with loads more faint fuzzies lurking in the background and the core detail of 1365 is great ... well done Mike !

Yeh thanks Steve, I really wanted to take more exposure ala my infamous Deep Centaurus A shot buuuuut the optimal aligment of all things to do with doing such a task with a portable setup is sadly a very rare ocurance ....I think I need a bigger scope. I'm thinking a 12" F3.8 would do the trick ..same FL but faster and larger aperture but still ok for the NJP...hmmm?...that sounds oh soooo familiar

Mike

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

What a lovely image. Lots to look over and very very clear and colours natural.

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

Straight to the pool room, I reckon! Well done, Mike, and congratulations!

Cheers,

Brian.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by CoolhandJo

What a lovely image. Lots to look over and very very clear and colours natural.

Originally Posted by Miaplacidus

Straight to the pool room, I reckon! Well done, Mike, and congratulations!

Cheers,

Brian.

Cheers guys really glad you enjoyed looking at it, I know that sounds like a cliche but I really do get a kick out of knowing not that people think it is a good image but that people actually enjoyed looking at it

Mike

[Octane (Humayun)]

Oi, you.

I wasn't a chicken -- I just figured it'd be so tiny.

I will be the first to admit, I don't like imaging tiny objects (it'd be fine if I had a load of aperture and a sensitive device), which is why I went with M45 up at Lostock.

This is a great image, however.

H

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Very impressive image Mike. There is almost a 3D feel to it, with 1365 popping out in front of the others. Btw that lenticular looks a lot like NGC3115, nice.

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

Oh magoo .................... YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Oi, you.

I wasn't a chicken -- I just figured it'd be so tiny.

I will be the first to admit, I don't like imaging tiny objects (it'd be fine if I had a load of aperture and a sensitive device), which is why I went with M45 up at Lostock.

This is a great image, however.

H

Balk be-gurk....

I know what you mean but I still recon your system would have been quite good for this field.

Your M45 was certainly a good image though so you dunn well mate

Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Very impressive image Mike. There is almost a 3D feel to it, with 1365 popping out in front of the others. Btw that lenticular looks a lot like NGC3115, nice.

Cheers and I agree Rolf, you see a few of these saturn galaxies out there actually when you start to look

Mike

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Jeffkop

Oh magoo .................... YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN.

I'm a bit like him in the dark after staring at the screen for a while, I always take a wide birth when I get up off my chair to walk around the scope because I can't see the bluddy thing

Glad you liked it Jeff

Mike

[rogerg (Roger)]

Very nice image Mike

[mexhunter (César)]

Hello Mike:
A photo of dream, brilliant.
Everything is perfect and in its place.
Many greetings
Cesar

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Hey thanks Cesar and Roger, appreciate that you both liked the image

The field was great to work with, so much in there.

Mike

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Good job Mike!
Fantastic, what a great area!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Cheers Werner

Hey do you know Wolfgang Promper? I think he likes heavy metal?

Mike

[EddieT (Eddie)]

That's an absolutely beautiful image Mike!
Love it.