[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Greg,
that's an excellent image and
I wonder if the stars could have been processed to be a little softer?
The stars look a little bit over white and hardened.
It would have been very difficult to process give the high dynamic range.
I like the red Ha regions.

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan. I have softened the stars a bit. Thanks for the suggestion.

Originally Posted by RickS

Greg,

Great detail and colour and you pulled out some very faint stuff, Greg.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick.

Originally Posted by Placidus

That's wonderful Greg. You've definitely gone deeper in the outermost tendrils of the spiral arms. Bravo!

Cheers Mike. I have done a bit of a rework this morning with fresh eyes and from the astute comments so far.

Originally Posted by Atmos

It is a pretty faint sucker but you’re showing it nicely. Perhaps a little too much noise reduction but when you’re going faint and without heavy integration, cannot always be helped.

Thanks Colin.

I've done a rework this morning with fresh eyes and in line with these comment in mind. The new version has way more subtle noise reduction. Other ways to skin the cat.

Originally Posted by Tony_

Nice one Greg!
This galaxy (like a lot of others) has a very low surface brightness - you've capture a lot of details and nice Ha regions.

Tony.

Thanks Tony. Its a beautiful galaxy but a bit faint. Also imaging so close to the SCP seems to have extra challenges.

Originally Posted by Stevec35

I agree with the comment about noise reduction Greg but other than that I think you've captured it very nicely. The colour is excellent.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks Steve. I accidentally ran a noise reduction routine a few times and it seemed like it failed at the time but apparently it worked each time! Fixed now.