[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Very interesting Jase! Keep the obscure ones coming - I started on a close up of RCW75 last night and used your image and a test exposure or two to determine best framing

Thanks Marcus! Fantastic to hear you've taken up the long focal length challenge on RCW75. The area around Stock16 should look awesome. Almost makes me want to bring my 12.5" RCOS back out of storage to do follow up observations. I'm looking forward to seeing your result mate.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Wow! The combined emission/reflection/dust makes for a beautiful photo, beautifully prepared.

The kid in me can't help seeing the Caped Crusader in his dust-black bat-suit, with padded shoulders, forgetting that he is still wearing Bruce Wayne's blue reflection nebula bow-tie.

Thanks for checking it out M&T! Is a fascinating area of the sky. Now you mention the dark super hero figure, I can clearly see it. Funny how you can process an image and see different features. It reminded me a little of IC2177.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

I like it. Colour balance is excellent and the background colour is superb. Something I have been wrangling with for some time, on my own images. That charcoal colouring is the aim in my opinion.

Cheers Paul! Was a clean data set to process so that makes it easier. Getting a background 'correct' I believe is a subjective topic. Some like a gentle blue cast, others inky black or somewhere in between such as charcoal as you mention. Also depends of the output. For web display, I think you are right that charcoal is the most appealing but it doesn't always work for print. Anyway I guess that's a completely different topic that goes along with the colour of space discussion. Thanks for checking it out, appreciated.