[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

So many tincy wincy tiny winy galaxies smattered throughout the field.... Along with quite a lot of blue hot pixels and a lime green star in the top left corner

I particularly love the MiniMe galaxy just to the north west of M61

The hottest of hot chilli sapphire pixels!

Originally Posted by atalas

Worth the venture guys....lovely face on

Thanks Louie, glad you like it.

Originally Posted by alpal

Nice shot Mike and Trish,
I would have been tempted to do some
local sharpening on the galaxies.

cheers
Allan

Hi, Allan,

You are probably right, but as we have seen with comments on our last several images, and our subsequent oscillatory behaviour, the level of wow, sparkle, sharpness and local contrast versus artefact and burn-out is a Scylla and Charybdis, Devil and Deep Blue Sea juggling act with no safe middle ground.

What we need is a super-fast image displayer where the user can pull a slider that increases or decreases the star-masked local contrast in real time, adding their desired level of salt and pepper, lest England swing like a pendulum do.

Best,
Mike and Trish