[Bassnut (Fred)]

Originally Posted by RickS

No chicken at all, Fred. Looks like steak & kidney to me now Some very cool details and nice colour

Thanks Rick. I still angst over colour pallete, glad you like it.

Originally Posted by Placidus

There is some seriously faint stuff that you've brought out there Fred - stuff that isn't in our version of the same field. And you've shown the faint stuff without losing overall impact. And white stars too.

You've obviously been working away gathering many, many hours of exposure on this and your other recent work. Real mega-data. And it's paying off.

Thanks Mike n Trish. Not so much work gathering, just takes a looong time. I did RGB stars but that was a fail, so the stars are just Ha.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Really nice Fred, I've never quite seen a chicken in this nebula but it is an interesting one to look at all the same
I cannot even imagine the kind of processing you can hit it with at 73 hour

Cheers Colin. I used to hit megadata with lots sharpening and decon etc, but you still get artifacts. Not so much of that stuff these days, although Im tempted at times, these images could be a lot sharper. Some processing is easier, much less noise to deal with.