Nice work Greg, cool looking galaxy huh?
You obviously had to stretch'em pretty hard but those outer arms are indeed faint so just picking them up at all from your location is an achievement in itself. I can't quite tell, is this meant to be a colour image, as I can see some blue around the bright stars upper left but that's about it? Maybe the stretching had some effect here?
Actually, I only shot this galaxy 1 year ago now, almost to the day...how time flies (In contrast to my rather safe static collection, your setup has evolved considerably since then
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Mike