[Rex]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Wow Rex, that galaxy halo looks awesome! You can clearly see the dust lane too but I think you should be getting a little bit better res out of that rig , of course the seeing may well have been against you too .? To me the ball like stars suggest that perhaps you weren't quite in focus ...but overall it is a quit a striking image

Mike

Thanks Mike for the encouragement. To be honest I can't actually remember what the seeing was like those nights, and as you have said could also have been focus as I was trying out Sequence Generator pro for the first time. Trying to focus using the fits files instead of the CR2's I did find quite different. Kind of more pixellated if that makes sense? Of course it could have been my outstanding processing skills that did it I had an issue with artifacts around the large red star on the RHS after deconvolution, so I tried something I haven't done before and performed a little convolution on the Red channel only. Not sure if that was the right thing to do????? The other thing I did differently was I resampled the image straight after the original crop to try and get some better resolution. Don't think it did anything to be honest but was worth a shot.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great field and star colors, Rex. You've picked up a lot of faint fuzzies and clusters in the halo of the galaxy. Top shot.

Thanks Marc, I too love the faint fuzzies. I find myself combing through every image I see these days, dreaming about how far away those fuzzies are and just how big the universe really is

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

That's a super image Rex! Very deep.

Thanks Kevin, much appreciated. I just gotta keep at it and eventually it will all come together. I must say that SGP actually makes it pretty easy to get long data runs. Between auto meridian flips and plate solving to ensure the scope is pointing where it is supposed to be. Apart from set up, focusing and going to bed, there isn't a lot more to do.