[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by cybereye

Very nice indeed Mike! As I mentioned on Flickr, thanks for sharing what is on the other side of the clouds - it's always a tremendous pleasure!

Cheers,
Mario

No worries Mario and grazzie for your kind comments, it isn't everyone's cup of tea and often hard to please everybody

Originally Posted by alpal

Nice shot Mike.
You've got a lot of detail in there.

cheers
Allan

Thanks Alan yes I was happy with the seeing on that night, see guide star centroid plot from a few sub sets across the night... and that certainly helped with the details

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Beautiful work there Mike. Did you consider lowering the intensity of the bright inner blue region? I think you'd get a really cool strong blue hue in there as a result, but I don't know how bright it really is compared to the rest so just an idea

Thanks for the suggestion Rolo, I did try a few version incluidng making that aea darker but I may have another tinker...Arggg another Sidonio might be coming

Originally Posted by telecasterguru

Quite striking.

Frank

Thanks Frank, glad to have struck you

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Not quite sure I like the colour Mike but technically nice in every other respect.

Cheers

Steve

No probs Steve, this narrowband thing is a little fickle and I did decide to miss the SII and only go Bi-Colour but don't think this object works with the traditional Red-Blue look that the Ha-OIII combo usually gives...? so I tweaked it with some layer mixing magic

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Youve done well their young Mike, lots of detail and appropriate saturated colour. Im not sure the bicolour thing worked though, even bad Sii would have made it a bit less bitonic. Im not sure why you dont use darks really, given they are easy to collect and last a good year if your lucky. They are stupid easy to apply during processing and would give you that slight less noise edge to allow more confidence in processing.

Thanks Fred, yeah I hear the Botonic thing, I tried to counter that by tweaking the bi-colours with the RGB but in the end there are only two main data sets I guess and this was the outcome...?..I was happy with the nice blue OIII wisps in the fainter areas, remind me of floating thin cirrus As for the darks?...As an older generation Kodak chip user it would be hard for you to understand but the Sony chip and in this particular camera architecture simply doesn't need them and in fact adding them (and/or flats and flat darks) is actually likely to make the noise level more ...I was quite happy with the noise level in this image though..?? and that was with no noise reduction, just dithered lights and median combine.