[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Ray,
well done -
that's why I'm building a 10" f4 Newt.

cheers
Allan

thanks Allan. A 250 Newt is a pretty good compromise scope if you can get it ironed out. Also, the RCC1 is an excellent CC that just fixes coma and has no other effect on the image. hope you get it sorted soon.

Originally Posted by clive milne

Colour balance looks fine to me Ray...

I would think it would benefit from more signal, but when is that ever not the case? and perhaps a whisker less de-con (personal taste)

nice shot

Thanks Clive. I was getting up into the tens of hours, so not much more to gain with more signal this season - what I really need is less sky signal. I agree that deconvolution could be slightly reduced - will try it. Unfortunately that is step 1 of a long process...

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Looking at that ESO image your galaxy colour seems very similar. So perhaps its spot on.

Greg.

maybe, but I will try a bit more saturation and see what it looks like. I guess there is no "right" answer - these images are all a long way from anything that we could see, so it is almost as "free for all" as NB.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice, Ray! Colours are good but conservative

thanks Rick - appreciate the feedback

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Great to see you back imaging galaxies Ray!

This has your usual level of good resolution going for sure (at least as good as I got with the AG12) aaand meah, yes the colour looks a little muted I suppose but many people will like it that way...my version done 12 months ago was considered a little too colourful by some, so horses for courses mate and yes pushed hard to reveal those faint outer arms and a little noisy as a result but I can still appreciate a good galaxy image in there, besides I would rather see the arms at the expense of noise.

Thanks for the view

Mike

Hi Mike. remarkably similar images - you used more saturation, but that's about it. I could have used more noise reduction, but I find that process can sometimes turn everything plastic, so I generally prefer to leave a bit of noise. will post a more saturated image in the near future to see how that looks.

thanks very much for the feedback folks. regards Ray