[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments. Much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

that's a ripper Paul - already looks brilliant. The fine detail is excellent and you already have a fair bit of the halo.

Thanks Ray. Very kind of you to say so. The fine detail is something I have brought from my back ground in planetary work. To my way of thinking images with fine detail always looks so much better than images with bolder looking high contrast detailing. I try to avoid using sharpening that causes the later.

I think the halo extends out a long way. I can see little knots of stars quite a way out but still in the halo that might indicate there is more to be seen signal wise. Time will tell I suppose but I enjoy this sort of challenge.

Originally Posted by glend

Paul it is fabulous. Did you include some Ha to bring out those emission nebula in the arms? And what sort of sub times are you running if i might ask. I have problem with centre blow out in my images of M83 so i assume you have used layer masking, is that correct?

Thanks Glen. I have collected some Ha but at this stage have not added this to the image. I probably need a couple more hours of data yet to add it to the image. My subs are 15 minutes for colour and 20 minutes for luminance, 30 minutes for Ha.

I will have to do some short subs to remove the blown centre. It get pretty well blown in a few minutes. It has a very bright core.