Fornax Cluster

[alpal]

Hi Marco,
Beautiful wide field picture & yes you just missed that supernova.
Just checked on Stellarium & NGC 1365 is almost directly overhead from Melbourne at 1.45am.

cheers
Allan

[icytailmark (Mark)]

wow fantastic image so many galaxies!!!

[anthony.tony]

Nice work- Tony

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by allan gould

??

I meant slice of the field

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Wow that's stunning Marco, very nice image and superb processing again. There is a lot going on in that image, also in the background. It really puts this cluster into perspective. Thanks for the view

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Fantastic image Marco - very deep and great colour!

Thanks David, the long luminance paied off despite my system is not very fast @ 7.2

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Thanks Kevin

Originally Posted by multiweb

Terrific field Marco. The full res is awesome. Spent about 20 min looking around. So many faint fuzzies and other interesting things in the area. Great shot.

Thanks Mark, I did an annotated map of the area and there are dozen of galaxies out there, it is an amazing field indeed !

Originally Posted by alexandre

Hello Marco

Here is a very beautiful image with of very beautiful colors!

Ciao!
@lex

Grazie Alex

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A stunner. Fabulous composition.

Greg.

Thanks Greg!

Originally Posted by LewisM

My favourite area too, and beautifully covered Marco.

Thanks Marc, it was a while I wanted to image this one, it was in my to do list for long time, just needed the right moment of the year to shoot it

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Ah Marco my friend, seems we are following each other around the same part of the sky...this is my current project too and a very similar field with your automated setup, you are of course doing it much more efficiently than me ...mine will be much less than a days worth of exposure though

Anyway, just been looking at your site and saw this (before you posted here) - this is really great and yes it is an awesome cluster indeed and you have captured it very nicely ...seems you missed the Supernova though ...so at least that will be something different between our images

Mike

Gee, thanks Mike, I am sure your image will turn out great with your firepower now that you have decent skies above your head! I indeed missed the sn, all LRGB subframes were taken between September 28 to October 17th, so the last luminance frame was taken 10 days before the discovery. I indeed checked if there was any sign of the nova there and there is nothing.. It seems that I missed the light of the nova for few days after a journey of 60 million years

Originally Posted by Stevec35

The best wide field of Fornax I think I have ever seen

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve !

Originally Posted by allan gould

Marco
I have the plate from the UK Schmitt Telescope covering the same field. Just love your image and I was going to do a large mosaic of this area ASAP.
Allan

Please do it Allan, this is for sure a field full of surprises, in aprticular at larger imaging scale!

Originally Posted by allan gould

Marco
I had a close look at your image and as far as I can see you managed NOT to record the Sn in this galaxy. Peculiar but I don't know when you obtained your data.
Allan

Ditto as per Mike, missed it for 10 days

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Lovely image once again. Great field and I have a slick of your field here.

Thanks Paul!

Originally Posted by OICURMT

Noticed the same thing... looks like the data was pre-SN.

SN here -> http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...e.php?a=125934

From thread -> http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=99102

Yep, as above, few days too early

Originally Posted by Phoenix

What a fantastic area and stunning image - I've been staring at this for ages now. So much depth and detail. Thanks!

Thanks to you Steve, glad that delighted you!

Originally Posted by Forgey

wow absolutely stunning Marco, just beautiful.

Thanks Paula

Originally Posted by rogerg

Great shot Love the colour and detail

Thanks Roger, glad you liked it!

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Marco,
Beautiful wide field picture & yes you just missed that supernova.
Just checked on Stellarium & NGC 1365 is almost directly overhead from Melbourne at 1.45am.

cheers
Allan

Yes Allan, this is the best time of the year to take a nice shot of this area passing overhead all over Australia!

Originally Posted by icytailmark

wow fantastic image so many galaxies!!!

Thanks Mark, didn't count them all but a rough estimation only of PGC there are around one hundred in the field, quite impressive to see how much stuff is out there..

Originally Posted by anthony.tony

Nice work- Tony

Thanks Tony

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Wow that's stunning Marco, very nice image and superb processing again. There is a lot going on in that image, also in the background. It really puts this cluster into perspective. Thanks for the view

Thanks Rolf, mission accomplished than

Glad you all liked it, I am very happy how this field turned out, this is a really amazing bit of sky to image even with medium resolution!

Clear skies
Marco

[Novykh (Ben)]

Awesome.

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Fantastic. Definitely my favorite galaxy cluster.

[Ross G]

Hi Marco,

What a beautiful photo.

The quality is amazing.

Ross.

[Greg Bock (Greg Bock)]

Beautiful field, rich in light and structure Marco. NGC1365 is one of my favourite galaxies, pity that you finished imaging before the supernova exploded. How many days between the final subframe and first discovery report?

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Wonderful image Marco ... great color. What a field !!!

All the best,
Leo

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by Leonardo70

Wonderful image Marco ... great color. What a field !!!

All the best,
Leo

Thank Leo

Originally Posted by Greg Bock

Beautiful field, rich in light and structure Marco. NGC1365 is one of my favourite galaxies, pity that you finished imaging before the supernova exploded. How many days between the final subframe and first discovery report?

Hi greg, thanks I missed the sn for about 10 days since from last frame. I have actually collected some rgb last week that should have the sn in it but still have to download the fits due to some issues I have on the remote connection. My idea id to add the sn light from this rgb to this image to have the best of the two images, but I will have to wait a bit longer to do it

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Marco,

What a beautiful photo.

The quality is amazing.

Ross.

Thanks Ross for the appreciation

Originally Posted by AG Hybrid

Fantastic. Definitely my favorite galaxy cluster.

Thanks Adrian, I have to admit this is a very fine galaxy cluster even if I have not imaged many other in the past..

Originally Posted by Novykh

Awesome.

Thanks Ben

Clear skies
Marco

[dvj (John)]

Wow! Blows away those 12-inch fast scope shots. LOL, Just kidding Mike.

jg

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by dvj

Wow! Blows away those 12-inch fast scope shots. LOL, Just kidding Mike.

jg

......on ya Johnny....