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Originally Posted by floyd_2
Love the full field mate. What a labour - 35 hours of 60 second subs. Wow. B7 skies certainly make the job harder than it needs to be. You've done a great job teasing the detail out of that background sky glow. How did you go dealing with the gradient during post processing?
I can see what looks to be small star forming regions in the outskirts at the very end of both antannae, and you've just managed to bring in quite a few tiny galaxies in the field too, which makes the image even more interesting IMO. Not an easy task with B7 skies. A great photo of a super interesting object.
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Cheers Dean. Yeah B7 makes you work pretty hard but for a target like this that's so well positioned it's possible to get good hours in a night - and we were particularly blessed with a number of clear nights this new moon!
Gradients were actually pretty tricky on this one - but APP has a fantastic gradient tool, and then I did another run with the new PI gradient tool which cleaned up a few pesky spots. Glad you liked the result!