[Paul Haese]

Thanks Markus, David and Bob for your comments.

Originally Posted by alpal

Wow Paul,
that's got to be one of the best ever posted of M83 on Ice in Space.
It's got so much detail & even the 2 little galaxies to the right are clearly shown.

cheers
Allan

I think Eric Benson's image of this target is about the best here. His image scale is huge with the image being taken on the 20" at Arkaroola in SA. I was pleased to see my colour natively came out very similarly to his.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

This image is doing my head in...

The outer field stars are slightly soft, but beautifully symmetrical

Yet many inner galaxy stars have slightly eggy profiles (2-8 o'clock) with tighter profiles and show fainter stars compared to the those elsewhere in the image.

I have no idea how you do it! but it makes a stand-out M83 for sure

Thanks Peter, some of the lum subs at present have slightly eggy stars. With some of the sharpening runs I did the size of the stars are reduced enough to make the star shapes evident around the galaxy itself.

As you know quality data to start with helps. The AOX is the clincher in this deal as you know. It helps to give good sharp data to about two orders of magnitude of seeing on the Pickering scale.