[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Ray, the Trifid is excellent - beautiful handling of the HH jet and the various bow shocks, but the Sombrero is just jaw-droppingly magnificent. Awesome.

Best,
M&T

Thanks Mike - really appreciate the comments.

Originally Posted by jase

Two very stunning images Ray. Data expertly handled. Hard to pick which I like best. Perhaps M20. Are these crops or full frame? Looking forward to seeing more.

Hi Jase. thanks a lot. both are crops, with about 0.6 of the M20 and 0.8 of the M104 retained. Cropped to tidy up overlap regions and improve the composition.

Originally Posted by TR

Ray,

That M104 is a great image. Nice stars, the colours very nice throughout the whole image. Best of all, it's not clipped like others I have seen. Very nice job. Nice job on M20 as well.

Terry

Thanks you Terry - spent a lot of time trying to control the stretch so that the clipping was minimal, so appreciate your feedback

Originally Posted by multiweb

Absolutely superb Ray. Incredible image scale and dynamic range. Top processing.
Was that shot with the GSO 300? Trying to work out the FL. That's gotta be over 3m right?

Hi Marc. many thanks. this was through the SW 250f4. the fl is 1m and the sampling is 0.91 arcsec/pix with the 694 camera.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Stunning Ray.
Just beautiful.
Greg

Hi Greg. many thanks.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Sorry, not so keen on the M20...a little too neon for my liking....but...

What a sublime M104!! Wonderful stuff

Thanks for the comments Peter. I am on the long road of trying to understand how colour data behaves under stretching, so appreciate the feedback on M20 - will revisit and see what can be done to tame it.

Regards Ray