Another widefield Milky Way - M20 & M8

[toryglen-boy]

I know, yet another of these. But DSO's seem to go in seasons, 3 months ago Eta Carinae was all the rage, now its seems its Sagittarius, so here is a widefield with a tiny Triffid and Lagoon thrown in, taken on a Canon 1000D, 6*3m subs, with 6*darks, piggybacked on Orion ED80

;)

[peter_4059]

I quite like this Duncan - you've captured a nice piece of sky with plenty of detail. It looks like you've moved the black point up a lot so the sky is really black. I think it would look more natural if you backed this off a bit.

Peter

[toryglen-boy]

The problem appears to be when i do the processing on my laptop then post it on here, i do the work on my laptop, and it looks spot on,better than here, and when i view it on here (a 42" screen) it looks completely different.

Thanks for the feedback Peter, its appreciated

:thumbsup:

[RobF]

Yes, I've often lived to regret remarks I've made about other people's pics from my laptop in the backyard at night. Things look completely different on a big desktop LCD later.

For "developing" pics, its probably more important to just get used to something you use a lot, rather than finding any one right solution. Bit like monitors for audio work....

[DavidU]

Excellent Duncan. Nice dark background !
So it looks like the weather has improved for you:)