It makes us feel like we're wasting our time with our little scopes and cameras.
Not at all, JJJ! It's great to see the diversity of images from different people with a variety of gear. That's one of the cool things about this pursuit - even the most basic equipment can produce stunning results.
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Originally Posted by billdan
Congratulations Rick, truly awesome image, I remember the luminous version you posted up recently. But the colour version is just "out of this world".
Thanks, Bill.
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Originally Posted by ozstronomer
Beautiful image Rick, a magnificant FOV with so many galaxy's
These widefields are very immersing. That galaxy on the lower left side is interesting. It looks like a whitish galaxy area below a regular looking spiral. A collision or extended halo perhaps?
That's truly beautiful Rick. Still going back to the hi-res and getting lost in it.
Well done.
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Stunning. Just stunning!
Thanks very much, guys!
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That's a fabulous image Rick.
These widefields are very immersing. That galaxy on the lower left side is interesting. It looks like a whitish galaxy area below a regular looking spiral. A collision or extended halo perhaps?
Thanks, Greg. I thought that was a reflection at first but it appears to be PGC 70787. I haven't been able to find much info but there is a paper "Dynamics of the Pavo-Indus and Grus cloud of galaxies" that describes it as "a strange object at 2.9'E from NGC 7531. It is not a plate default as it appears on red and blue films, as well as SERC films."
A beautiful image Rick, so much detail to absorb, can spend ages.
Thanks, George!
BTW, attached is a full res crop of NGC 7531 showing an inverted image of the odd "galaxy" PGC 70787 beneath. I pinged a friendly astrophysicist and he pointed me at an article that suggests this is a stellar tidal stream associated with NCG 7531 rather than an independent irregular galaxy.
Nice work Rick. My personal take is that it's pushed harder than the data can support, but it was nice to cruise around and check out all those background fuzzies, which of course wouldn't be as apparent had you not pushed the data so hard.
Nice work Rick. My personal take is that it's pushed harder than the data can support, but it was nice to cruise around and check out all those background fuzzies, which of course wouldn't be as apparent had you not pushed the data so hard.
Ta, Lee. I could have dropped the resolution further or stretched the faint stuff less and ended up with a cleaner image but it was a deliberate choice.
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I don't think I've seen a better shot of that region Rick. Nice work.
Really great image Rick, i love shots like this, just surfing around to see those faint fuzzies, fantastic. Though, are you sure Abell 1111 is in this view, looking in TSX, that galaxy cluster is around RA 10h 51m and Dec -02 39' but the Grus quart is around 23h 19m and -42 18'
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