[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

It is a crazy yet magnificent field this one and I think you have done a commendable job here Rick and I am glad you decided to emphasise the dust at the expense of the slightly brighter/lighter/noisier and consequently slightly washed out colours. The Galactic Cirrus just looks so cool

I know what you mean by finding these galaxy and dusty fields hard to process, I think I had similar difficulty with my NGC 5068, 5084 field in southern Virgo year before last. There was just so much cool looking galactic cirrus in the field when it was stretched but the noise became excessive, getting the stretched dust to match in with the galaxies naturally without too much noise and consequently obvious noise reduction as well as the washed out colours effect creeping in, was very difficult and I was never really happy with it.... so I did two versions to have the best of both Worlds .

Well done again on a deep image of an area most of us southerners have never had the privilege of imaging.

Mike

Thanks very much, Mike. I have another really dusty one to process. Must strike while the iron is hot

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Magnificent Rick. Amazing to think that 30 years ago nobody knew all that stuff was out there.
Geoff

Thanks, Geoff. Yes, it's amazing what we can produce with relatively modest equipment these days. I remember when galaxies were just dim blurs seem with averted vision!

Originally Posted by Placidus

You've just convinced me that there really is such a thing as interstellar medium, even far from the Milky Way, and it isn't just artifact of processing. All very well reading about it in the textbooks. Congratulations.

Thanks, Mike. There was no painting done at all