[Paul Haese]

Thanks David and Marc for your comments.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Certainly one of the best NGC 1097 images I've seen Paul

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve for such high praise. Whilst I am very happy with the detail levels on this image, I think there are a few images out there that look much better. Those are from much larger scopes though. So I am happy my "little" scope stands up well against the bigger players.

Originally Posted by Atmos

There certainly is a factor with this rendition. Wonderfully captured Paul!

Thanks Colin, I have processed this several times over the course of collecting the data. I got quite excited about the possibilities after about 10 hours of luminance. I could easily take this further and collect a lot more data in the luminance to create a very noise free image with lots of the back ground galaxies poking out.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Faultless finish. Most enjoyable. The colour is excellent, and the "gas ring" in the nucleus magical.

Thanks MnT for your kind words. I really like the colouring too both of the galaxy and the stars in the field. That gas ring is a really interesting object and I am very happy with how that came out.

Originally Posted by RickS

A great image, Paul, with impressive detail. The galaxy core is the icing on top for me.

I recently ran across a paper on imaging a low surface brightness galaxy where the authors were able to show features as faint as 28 mag/arcsec^2. I'm going to see if I can apply their techniques to my old NGC 1097 data and bring out R4 more clearly.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick. it must be some sort of sharpening and contrasting technique I imagine that would provide that ability. I'd be very interesting should you be able to produce more detail out of your image.

I looked at your image several times over the last couple of months. I also looked at several others images too, just for comparative purposes and to work out what I liked in each.