NGC 5101, 5078, and friends in southern Hydra

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

That is a particularly stunning field.
Wonderful image MnT.

Thanks Rodney, delighted you like it too. It's one we'll come back to over other new moons. Perhaps do a micro-mosaic to get a bit more of a border around the big ones.

[gregbradley]

Very nice Mike. Great framing to get both in.

Greg.

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 Love the framing and how radically different the galaxies are in structure. And superb colors to boot. Well done.
PS: they look like two arnotts cream cookies.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

+1 Love the framing and how radically different the galaxies are in structure. And superb colors to boot. Well done.
PS: they look like two arnotts cream cookies.

Thanks, Marc. It was fun to do, rewarding. And you are right about the dust lane on the Monte Carlo biscuits.

Best,
Mike

[Rex]

Holy cow! That is an awesome image M&T. So many galaxies, and very nicely processed. Something to aspire to.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Rex

Holy cow! That is an awesome image M&T. So many galaxies, and very nicely processed. Something to aspire to.

Thanks muchly, Rex. Far from the Milky Way seems to be where to find them. Around Grus is another good spot.

Best,
Mike

[andyc (Andy)]

That's another peach there Lovely and clean and deeeeep

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Thanks Andy.

Attempting to add another 3hrs of Lum late tonight after the moon's gone down, but right now the seeing is in Three Blind Mice territory so probably nothing will come of it.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

A striking image M&T! Quite a lovely and interesting field! Reminds me I need to finish my version one day (started in 2014 ).

Cheers, Marcus

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Thanks for the encouragement, Marcus.

We got another 3 hours of Lum last night. Seeing was astonishingly good while the moon was up - 1.5 sec arc (and we got 4 good hours on Gum 41) but by the time the moon was down (unattended), the secondary must have started to fog up. FWHM and background brightness both rocketed.

[alpal]

Hi Mike & Trish,
fabulous results - I spent ages voyaging around looking at all the galaxies.
You've got such a perfect flat field over a large off-axis distance.
This where the 20" Planewave excels to give these deep galaxy images.

cheers
Allan

[deeplook (Markus)]

Very, very nice Mike & Trish! Much detail and rich colors, beautiful to look at!

Markus

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Mike & Trish,
fabulous results - I spent ages voyaging around looking at all the galaxies.
You've got such a perfect flat field over a large off-axis distance.
This where the 20" Planewave excels to give these deep galaxy images.

cheers
Allan

Thanks, Allan! We're delighted you like it.

With typical 1.5 to 2.5 sec arc seeing the 20" at Euchareena (somewhere you can raise chooks and cows and veggies) is not necessarily sharper than a good 6 inch. But it can gather a lot of light, so our strength seems to be going after faint stuff.

Originally Posted by deeplook

Very, very nice Mike & Trish! Much detail and rich colors, beautiful to look at!

Markus

Thanks Markus. Nice to hear from you.

[Ross G]

Wow!...what a beautiful galaxy photo.

Amazing work Mike & Trish.

Ross.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

Wow!...what a beautiful galaxy photo.

Amazing work Mike & Trish.

Ross.

Thanks, Ross,

Most kind. Sorry we've missed the last couple Epping meetings. Hope to see you soon.

Best,
M & T

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Wow, this is a poster pic. Strong satisfying colours and a velvet background with great detail in the subjects.
A really satisfying image to look at.
Nicely done.

Trevor

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Thanks, Trevor.

Amazingly, today's APOD was of this very area. Theirs is unquestionably sharper, but we're kind of chuffed to see that when you look at the faintest structures, ours is deeper!

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Beutiful detail M&T. Perhaps a bit to orange in the stars. This is on my to-do list. As MS says, "so many objects, so little time"
Geoff

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Beutiful detail M&T. Perhaps a bit to orange in the stars. This is on my to-do list. As MS says, "so many objects, so little time"
Geoff

Thanks, Geoff. Your comment led to an interesting observation. I registered our shot with the APOD shot from a couple days ago and blinked between them.

In some outer parts of the image, the saturation and colours of the stars were broadly similar to ours. For the main part however, their stars look strongly desaturated, but the galaxies right next to them are extremely saturated. Hard to explain.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Not sure how I missed this wonderful image...this photo is simply stunning

I reckon it definitely deserves a quality print on metal; it would look great on a wall at night when illuminated with some nicely matched light