[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by pvelez

Thats a tough target Mike - very well done. Colour is king for me and I love the magenta in the spiral arms

Pete

Thanks heaps Pete as pointed out by Steve below, there was a little colour noise but I have just removed as much as I can

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Nicely done Mike. I imaged this one myself a long time ago and I know it's a difficult target so you've done well. I would possibly tone the saturation down a bit though as there's some colour noise creeping in.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve and yes it is really faint this one. Thanks for pointing out the residual colour noise too, I had removed much of it but you were quite right some remained, I have now manually gone and removed as much as I can without affecting the many small HII regions ...after zooming in it was indeed quite difficult to tell the noise from real detail, particularly there are a lot of HII regions...so I did my best referring to the Ha only data.

Originally Posted by Placidus

An involuntary "WOW" escaped.

In addition to the exquisite detail in the main target, the extreme faintness of the main target means that the distant galaxies are very prominent and add a lot.

Cheers M&T, I really like this galaxy and the only other time I imaged it, waaaay back when, with my old LX200, it was next to impossible to render anything worthwhile...times they have'a changed

Originally Posted by codemonkey

That's awesome, Mike. Lots of cool little fuzzies in that one! Nice work.

Cheers Man

Originally Posted by Atmos

That looks like such an interesting target... Would love to see some Ha on that if you please haha

Well, arhem, as per the image credits ..there is 2hrs worth in there already Col just to enhance the HII regions a tad

Mike