[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Somnium

well don Greg looks fantastic

Cheers.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Greg,
a beautiful face on spiral that I hadn't seen before.
well done

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice to finally have some dark skies for that beast huh?? ..and it shows!
Its not bad but needs better colour I recon but I do love the details in this baby, thats what makes this spirograph looking galaxy shine, nice

That M74 though is reeeally lookin good, if you can get some good colour into that, it should be a purler Greg

Mike

Thanks Mike. I did some more work on it this morning. Yes the colour was rather weak. Not sure why it seemed to lack. Anyway I have managed to boost it without raising the noise too much. I don't think its a particularly colourful galaxy in the first place but yes the original did lack.

I have colour for M74 and its been on my want to image list for over a year now so I was happy to get some good data. Dark skies do make all the difference.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice photogenic galaxy Greg. Nicely captured.

Thanks Geoff.

Originally Posted by FranckiM06

Wow, it is wonderful image and very nice galaxy. I didn't knew it
Franck

Thanks Fanck. Its not often imaged as its not very bright.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Mike,
that's personal choice -
I would have boosted the colour in LAB mode too
with a tiny bit extra Red & Green &
also
darkened the background slightly.

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan. I have boosted the colour and darkened the background a little. I have in the past tended to make the backgrounds too dark but I went too far the other way here! oh to get balance! Thanks for the feedback.

Greg.