Antlia Galaxy Cluster (Abell S0636) - Extreme Deep Field - 152 Hours

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

I've commented on this elsewhere Rolf but I'll say again - incredibly impressive work. You have amazing dedication!

Steve

[PeterM]

Its 2 things to me - visually stunning and its off the well worn beaten track and we should be seeing more of this. You have pushed boundaries here, so very well done!

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by DJT

What a marvelous image! The write up is great, thoroughly enjoyed reading it along with your answers to the questions posed here in the thread

Thanks for sharing

Thanks very much David, I'm glad it was interesting

Originally Posted by marco

Herculean effort Rolf! The result is outstanding and I do agree, the write up and all the job done on comparison with other images add a lot to an already unique image, bravo!
Marco

Thanks a lot Marco, it was good fun to produce all the supplementary views too, glad you liked it!

Originally Posted by gvanhau

That's a master piece of image.

I photographed this cluster on Jan 2014 in one night, and none of the Ha filaments showed up. Obvius is that it is only work for a fixed setup.

Congrats.
Geert

Thanks Geert, yes the Ha filaments are very faint and I needed 8 hours of binned Ha to even register them. A wide field image at lower resolution might pick them up faster I suspect.

Originally Posted by RickS

An epic effort, Rolf! Not much that I can say that hasn't been said already

Thanks very much Rick!

Originally Posted by Stevec35

I've commented on this elsewhere Rolf but I'll say again - incredibly impressive work. You have amazing dedication!

Steve

Thank you Steve, I'm happy with how it turned out in the end so felt the dedication paid off Not sure if I want to top this effort though

Originally Posted by PeterM

Its 2 things to me - visually stunning and its off the well worn beaten track and we whould be seeing more of this. You have pushed boundaries here, so very well done!

Thanks very much Peter, it was my intention to show something different both in terms of depth and subject matter so I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[IceMike (Mike)]

Thanks for sharing this picture and the details Rolf. A stunning result for your effort. Congratulations!

[Rod771 (Rod)]

I think some professional guys are going to be upset with you Rolf. When governments see what your doing from your backyard they are sure to pull funding.

Thankyou for posting such an informative write up and inspirational image. Congratulations on your result!

[White Rabbit]

I think Codemonkey summed it up quite succinctly.

HOLY ****

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by IceMike

Thanks for sharing this picture and the details Rolf. A stunning result for your effort. Congratulations!

Thank you Mike I'm very happy with the result, so good to hear you enjoyed it

Originally Posted by Rod771

I think some professional guys are going to be upset with you Rolf. When governments see what your doing from your backyard they are sure to pull funding.

Thankyou for posting such an informative write up and inspirational image. Congratulations on your result!

Thanks a lot for your kind words Rod, hopefully no funding will be pulled!

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

I think Codemonkey summed it up quite succinctly.

HOLY ****

Thanks very much Sandy

[andyc (Andy)]

I do believe this has finally got its well-deserved APOD! Long-overdue for a truly special image

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by andyc

I do believe this has finally got its well-deserved APOD! Long-overdue for a truly special image

Thanks very much Andy. it was indeed a surprise when I got an email from the APOD editors the other day, as I had submitted this image over a year ago.

[Peter Ward]

I found this field anything but boring....in fact inspiring would be my thoughts
when I first saw the image at NASA's APOD site....well deserved!

Only after that did I see your post on IIS

Simply masterful, as usual, Rolf

[topheart]

Mind blowing image!
Congratulations!!!

Cheers,
Tim

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

congrats again Rolf, well deserved APOD! - even if it did take a while - just like the exposure time i guess!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Once again a great effort Rolf. Is your new observatory up and running yet?

Cheers

Steve

[alpal]

Well deserved:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161018.html

[g__day (Matthew)]

Extremely impressive on all fronts - in awe!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Pretty epic. 150h? Wow! That's like 4 years worth of clear skies in NZ no?