[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Lovely. I really like this one.

A great result by any measure

thanks very much Peter

Originally Posted by Andy01

Hi Ray, whilst I don't understand your comment, I do appreciate that you have done a great job on this difficult target.

I say difficult having imaged it twice for a zillion hours in NB but I have yet to find a truly pleasing colour palatte, as indeed you have done here.

The image is well composed, nicely balanced and maybe just a tad red, and it's very good result.

thanks Andy. the comment on resolution could have been better expressed, but the point I was trying to make is possibly illustrated in the unbinned/binned comparo http://astrob.in/full/289059/0/ which shows (I think), that there is little point in displaying a big billowy neb like this at full resolution for web viewing - it looks better and is easier to take in at lower scale - and, apart from some very faint stars, there doesn't seem to be any loss of significant information.

Originally Posted by SimmoW

Love it Ray, very natural looking other than the red cast/background.

Not hearing much on the forums re. binning this camera, so I'd love to see a comparo of bin2 vs bin1. Could you pm me a link to any files? or better yet, post here for others to see too?

thanks Simon. I chose a reddish cast because the DSS1 data show some extensive red nebulosity surrounding the main region. However, I take the point and will reprocess some time soon.

the binning was not done on the camera, but in software (Nebulosity), after it was all processed. My understanding is that the camera does not do a very good when binned (loses a couple of bits of dynamic range), so I have never used it that way. The image at http://astrob.in/full/289059/0/ shows some non-binned and binned data - I think that the extra SNR and perception of sharpness justifies binning.