[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Interesting challenge, Mike. Do you need subs that are that long to get sky noise limited? I know that my NB subs aren't but I only have 12" of aperture.

Cheers,
Rick.

More laziness, use, and custom than science. We've found a recipe that works. And to some degree, we do 1 hr shots just because we can. (We did do the maths at one point and work out that somewhere between half an hour and an hour was good.)

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yep Ja Ja lept out at me straight away too although I can see the Cobra interpretation too

Vibrant bold colours with burnt oranges there, nice and I don't mind magenta stars but perhaps they are a bit saturated in this case as they are drawing the eye a tad strongly?...colours aside, the detail and scale that is such a hallmark of your work is still evident and I like the less than common framing too (or are you guys doing a mozaic?)

Mike

Thanks muchly, Mike. We really need to watch the magenta. We did reduce it by about 50% on the brightest stars - automatically find the stars, calculate the magenta contribution and halve it - but I was a bit sloppy about the star-finding parameters and didn't really check if it had worked properly. Will try a repro, together with trying to control some of those little blue and red spots that Rick noticed.