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Old 04-01-2011, 01:36 AM
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Absolutely awesome Mike!
Cheers boys ...the full colour should look good and I have plenty of time to get it, this cluster currently rises at about 8.30pm so it will be around for a while.

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Old 04-01-2011, 02:04 AM
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Nice one Migel and glad you're having a run of imaging time.....

Yes I'm a big fan of galaxy clusters and this is a beaut!!

Now we'll wait for the colour rendition to blow us away

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Old 04-01-2011, 03:28 PM
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This has excellent potential Mike when you add the colour. I really look forward to seeing that result.

See if you can tame the flaring though....and that will be your challenge.

Fine image.

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Old 04-01-2011, 04:27 PM
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For the thrill seakers (Marcus ): Full Size Full Res image (6meg)

For a quicker look (600k): Close up of the central gluster members

A close up of the cool overlapping galaxies NGC 3314 only 2.3' 1.7' in size

Only 90min Luminance so far so hopefully I will get to add more plus the colour soon

Mike
Nice one Mike, but again I have to say it's time for you to upgrade to a larger telescope At least you can keep comparing with all those Hubbles' narrow fields

My compliments also on the Seagull, really nice one

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This has excellent potential Mike when you add the colour. I really look forward to seeing that result.

See if you can tame the flaring though....and that will be your challenge.

Fine image.

cheers
Martin
Hey thanks for taking a peek Martin

Like Ha only images, big deep B&W galaxy fields take me back to my early days when I saw a few UK Schmidt and Palomar plates.

As for the star flare, it is a bit of an enigma really, this sort of star diffraction pattern is characteristic of having several small protrutions into the light path edge, like might be caused by wires routed along RC spider vanes and mirror edge clips etc.. ...but I just can't see'em anywhere ..maybe shinny bits in the 4" FF and associated extensions can cause this too? Anyhoo I have grown used to it now, like RC and Newt users have to really I guess, the super resolution capabilities of the Starfire don't seem to be compromised...but then perhaps it could be even better

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Nice one Mike, but again I have to say it's time for you to upgrade to a larger telescope At least you can keep comparing with all those Hubbles' narrow fields

My compliments also on the Seagull, really nice one

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I am upgrading, should be here any day now..?? ..bigger and faster with a slightly wider field of view (1.8deg X 1.8deg) but it will have slightly less focal length 1140mm v 1300mm.

Sooo, fingers crossed

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Old 04-01-2011, 06:20 PM
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Awesome shot Mike.

That's a very interesting galaxy down the right of the central galaxy between the 2 bright stars. It looks a bit like M82. I wonder if it has jets.

It would probably need 5 metres of focal length to bring it up enough to see it clearly though.

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Old 04-01-2011, 06:54 PM
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Awesome shot Mike.

That's a very interesting galaxy down the right of the central galaxy between the 2 bright stars. It looks a bit like M82. I wonder if it has jets.

It would probably need 5 metres of focal length to bring it up enough to see it clearly though.

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Hmm? rushing through the posts huh?

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...50582/original

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That's interesting.

So is the spiral in in front of that monster behind it or are they in the process of colliding I wonder?

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Old 04-01-2011, 08:33 PM
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That's interesting.

So is the spiral in in front of that monster behind it or are they in the process of colliding I wonder?

Greg.
Chance alignment I believe, one is closer than the other, not interacting.

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