[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I seeee bright wiggly wooooorms.....tut tut

Colours look nice though

Mike

Oops that slipped through. Corrected. It was the CCDstack sharpening that caused it. I don't normally use it. Fixed now.

Originally Posted by Slawomir

Hi Greg,

I must agree with Mike - colours are good but luminance (Ha?) would certainly benefit from lighter processing.

But overall the image looks very nice

Thanks Suavi. As above I've fixed that now.

Originally Posted by MLParkinson

Greg, this comment really isn’t aimed at you in particular, but all of us, and especially me. Technically you guys with IQs of 150+ are light years ahead of me with your imaging and I am amazed at your attention to technical details which, perhaps, from the point of view of aesthetics, might not matter as much as we like to believe. At the end of the day, a great image can be technically flawed. More disappointing is when a technically perfect image produced by an elite astro-imager falls short on one essential account: composition. Some imagers argue that “focus, focus, focus” is everything when collecting the raw data. I would argue “composition, composition, composition” is everything at the start of an imaging project which might take up weeks of one’s precious time. I aim to spend the first night experimenting with composition until I find something that is pleasing before I commit to multiple nights of data integration. Finding the right composition is usually easy with a galaxy: center the target on the cross hairs, and this often makes a pleasing composition. However, pleasing composition does not come so easy for a complex nebula. Sorry for my condescending, but hopefully constructive reality check.

I agree composition is super important.

I take it you don't like this one? I thought it was fine. A bit wider would suit the object a bit more as it gets the 2nd neb on the left in the frame. In fact my first attempt at this was better when I used the reducer as it got both in the frame easily but at 3 metres focal length and basically the largest sensor on the market you end up with this sort of FOV. The Honders would get a far wider FOV so perhaps I will image it again using that. Thanks for your comments.

Greg.