Lagoon Starless

[gregbradley]

Here is the result of eliminating those pesky stars!

http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/100200828/large

Greg.

[Bassnut]

Holly crap Greg, that is awesome, your a quick learner. Youve slightly over smoothed the outer neb, but a worthy effort (and sheesh, your asking me?). Very nice, you ww you ;-)

[MrB]

What's the incentive for removing the stars?
Not criticism, just trying to work out why?

[Bassnut]

It accentuates the gas cloud stucture effect without star distraction. Not to say its better or worse, just different, for an oft imaged object, its nice to see a different perspective methinks.

[gregbradley]

Its just a different look.

Russell Croman was the first I saw doing this.

It suits some objects and not others.

Greg.

[MrB]

Makes sense, thanks.

[Ric]

Very nice Greg, I'm enjoying this new starless perspective. I haven't seen this before but I'm finding it very enjoyable to view.

Cheers

[Dietmar]

this does look very cool, Greg!

[Matty P]

Very nice Greg. It is very odd no having any stars in the image.

Very well done. :thumbsup: