"No spikes here" Astro-Physics 305mm F3.8 Riccardi-Honders Astrograph.

Paramount PME

"Artifact free" SBIG STX16803, self guide mode. RGB 5:5:5 minutes

FW5-STX with (Big Mother) Baader Planetarium 65mm square filters.

Mounting plates by Losmandy-Hollywod General Machining.

Capture with CCDops, Reduction MaxIm CCD, Touch-up Photoshop CS5.5

Focusing system: *hairy eyeball and steady right hand.

Operating system Windows XP-Pro 64

Processor by Intel.

Single Malt Scotch by Laphroaig.

(*hairy eyeball....Aussie slang for view with skepticism :) )