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Originally Posted by Paul Haese

A superb image Rick. Great colour, detail and smooth.

Thanks, Paul!

Originally Posted by Stevec35

A great Iris Rick! Tight stars, smooth yet highly detailed. What's not to like?

Cheers

Steve

Ta, Steve.

Originally Posted by IanP

Awesome image, processing, colours and everything, although, as I prefer to see ‘SOME” noise, it seems to me that you’ve employed PI noise-reduction in a rather hard way …

Thanks, Ian. I did find the noise in this one a bit ugly and gave it a couple of light noise reductions in the dark areas only. I did try to careful and subtle but maybe I didn't get away with it... Unfortunately, no practical amount of exposure time will get a really dark neb looking cleanish.

Originally Posted by RobF

Just stunning Rick. The star colours and dust are processed wonderfully. The beauty of the Iris is almost an interruption in some ways. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Rob. I'll clone that dang nebula out next time

Originally Posted by lazjen

Another great image Rick!

About 15? hours of data seems a bit low for you? Is it likely to be worth putting more hours to it or is the effort/amount not worth the diminishing returns?

Thanks, Chris. Looks like I made a mistake in my notes. The subs were all 900s so the total was a more respectable 21 hours.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Another top image Rick. The colour in the neb is really nice and the IFN looks great. Those long exposures really pay off. (Note to self: nothing less than double figure exposures for nebs and galaxies from now on).
Geoff

Thanks, Geoff! It is a pleasure working with large quantities of data but not always possible, unfortunately.