[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Beaute shot Rick. Sharp as and not over processed like many I've seen before. Great details.

Thanks, Marc!

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

That image jumped out at me so rich and bright, I thought you had used Ha as a few red patches have come out. Only criticism is the bright stars and diff spikes are a bit too dominant but you have brought out the halo very clearly.

John.

Thanks, John. Good points. The stars did blow out when I stretched the halo despite some attempts to control this. I need to work on my mask generation.

Originally Posted by peter_4059

Nice going Rick. Heaps of detail and sure is high impact. Agree with what others have already said re the red stars. They seem to have a dark ring on my monitor.

Thanks, Peter. That's another thing I will try to correct.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well being a blueaphile I'm gunna say it is way too red/magenta and I recon there needs to be more brightness variation from centre to edge of the galaxy buuuut otherwise....man, a pretty damn cool image that Ricki With plenty of exposure you have certainly revealed the faint outer halo and display it quite nicely too. Yes, a real shame you weren't able to reveal the S-Bend guess it takes incredible stretching skills to be able to show that, oh well, next year mate . The limiting magnitude looks to be pretty faint too.

Very well done

Mike

Thanks, Mike. I did deliberately pick that colouring based on an eXcalibrator colour calibration and a bit of a survey of NGC 253 images that I liked and didn't like, but perhaps I'm a magentaphile I did flatten the dynamic range of the galaxy a bit to bring out the halo and I agree I could probably do better with some more work. I also promise to do better on the S-bend next year

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Gee, spectacular 3d detail there Rick, top work. Who cares about the stars . The diffraction spikes add drama.

Thanks, Fred!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I don't know if Rick is willing but it would be cool if he uploaded his ata to Dropbox and invited others to have a go at processing. It could be a fast track way of gaining some processing info if those who process it post what they did.

This is potentially the most interesting data I have seen for a while.

Greg.

Greg: I don't think I'd want to make a public release but I'd be happy to make the data available on request.

Cheers,
Rick.