[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by RickS

That's a stunner, M&T! Nice variation in the colours and the usual great detail.

I always assumed that Alvin was part of the Prawn?

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick! I think the whole thing all counts as IC 2628, but to us it works much better if they are two separate objects.

Originally Posted by vlazg

Stunning M & T, colours are great and the detail is so sharp.
Alvin looks like Aesops greedy fox

Ta, George. We had two greedy foxes skulking together around our front paddock, yesterday. Luckily they were probably looking for mice rather than 450 kg steers.

Originally Posted by LewisM

HOLY GOODNESS BATMAN!

38 hours...ah but to dream...

Cheers, Lewis. Perchance to dream ... aye, there's the rub.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well....bloody brilliant I recon While I think selectively applied basic sharpening could enhance some of the high signal areas, it is also not imperative to do this either. No probs re the handling of the stars, a perfectly legitimate approach there and not only is the whole image aesthetically pleasing but the colour palette (in fact the whole image) makes perfect sense and shows the distribution of the three wavelengths nicely, just the right amount of saturation too... ie the right balance between science and art to me.

An attractive, believable image of a famous nebula, well done.

Of course if you get the bit to the right of this mosaic now, it will be a nicely balanced image

Mike

Thanks so much, Mike. The science-art balance does seem important. We are thinking about adding a couple panels on the right, just to get a bit more of the Prawn.

Originally Posted by Octane

Absolutely beautiful work, guys.

I'd imagine that would look fabulous as a 1:1 canvas (with the stars removed).

H

Thanks Humayun! We can get the H-alpha completely starless without too much of a fight, but the OIII and SII are a menace because they are so faint and the stars so bright.

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Had 11 mm of rain today. That's 5000 litres in the tank. The biggest previous fall in the past 3 months was 0.7 mm. Yippee!