[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Regulus

The colours work well on this subject. Nicely done.
I thought it was Great A'tuin, but noticed that there were no elephants holding up a Disk World standing on his back. So... yeah Ninja Turtle :-)

Trev.

Thanks, Trevor. We thought a turtle could legitimately have a touch of green.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Mike & Trish,
It looks great to me &
I think it could even be better if a bit more stretching was done with HDR
toning on the bright parts that are of similar brightness &
it looks like it could take a little sharpening - that's if you could control the bright stars.

cheers
Allan

Hi, Allan. Had to think hard about your insightful comment. As others have remarked, this area is intrinsically really soft. Apart from one edge of the turtle's face, the yabbie/gladius, and the black dragon, there are no shock fronts or hard edges anywhere. The overall gain we used on the wavelet sharpening was 280%, far more than we've ever used before on anything. We take it as a complement that the result doesn't look oversharpened.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Wow! This is getting better by the minute. So smooth and the stars are so tiny.

Cheers, Marc. The star size is cheating the tiniest bit, in that they are the H-alpha stars. We've been struggling for a couple years trying to master the narrowband magenta halo issue, and we think we're close now.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a great image scale and you've achieved great solidity in that image. I like it.
Greg.

Thanks, Greg. It was a surprising fight. Glad you like it too.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

This is one object I just wouldn't have though would lend itself to NB imaging...but well, well, there you go, glad you dared ...it is quite an intriguing image guys, that inky river looks so cool, nice work

Mike

Many thanks, Mike. You are absolutely right about it not being an obvious target. It fought back.

Originally Posted by Atmos

I love it MnT! I can see what Allan means by sharpening, the whole image looks reasonably soft but that's just the region, kinda like one that Rick did a while back. A lot of nebulosity but lacked the hard edges that can be sharpened.

I think it is the lack of edges that gives it a real 3D feel in that the vast majority of the nebulosity appears very faint, that I can almost see the black veil of space behind it.

Hi, Colin. Yes, apart from a few tiny specific features, the whole gas cloud is really lacking in shock fronts or hard edges. We've wavelet sharpened this much more than any other image we've ever done.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Very nice indeed! I've never seen this in NB before and it looks great.

Cheers
Steve

Thanks, Steve. Glad you like it.

Best,
M&T