[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by alpal

Wonderful pic Mike.
It compares well with this APOD from Gendler:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090919.html

http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC3621.html


& even ESO with their 2.2m telescope!
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1104/

You have proven that amateurs are catching up with professionals.

well done

cheers
Allan

Hi Al, yeah saw all those already, was looking at Gendlers and its great but the sharpening artefacts are a bit obvious aaaand just to annoy everyone I wanted a little more colour

Originally Posted by Rod771

Very nice image Mike!

My eyes actually kept getting drawn to PGC 34490, little bit of nice detail there

No flats, yes that would be nice.

Cheers Rod, yes that galaxy is very cool, just big enough to show some cool shape but small enough to look reeeeally far away and yes, not needing darks or flats and usually no need for gradient removal or much noise reduction is a great capability and makes processing so quick and easy.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice Mike. It is a faint one. Great colour and detail and as always your stars look great.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, yes the outer arms are indeed faint, in fact Martin needed some 8hrs of Lum binned 2X2 for these outer arms in his version...12" @ F3.8 with this little sensitive Sony chip has some advantages

Originally Posted by atalas

Looks great!

Cheers Louie