[Andy01 (Andy)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice Melbourne skies work Andy, a very interesting collection of nebs that The top left area has always reminded me of a big brain and I've always liked the blue torus near the brain too. So many interesting crazy looking nebulae in the LMC huh? Could keep a small FOV imager occupied for a life time, well done

Mike

Cheers Mike I was originally inspired by an image Paul Haese posted here several years ago, of course there have been many other wonderful versions (including yours) since - marvellous region, so much to image at all focal lengths

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Hey Andy....sorry can't give you an "A" for this one...maybe a B+....unfortunately my eye was drawn to the soft and slightly elongated stellar profiles, lack of filigree nebulosity, granular sky and almost duo-tone colours (yep...I'm a totally non-PC critic)

That said, the composition and framing is spot-on, as you'd expect from a seasoned professional photographer. A solid image for sure .

As for the Rorschach test...nup...there is just a fish swimming towards me

Aah Peter, you've become the new Red Symons of IIS
That said, bearing in mind that it is a Duo - tone: I appreciate the tuff love and your frank feedback here.
I'll keep trying to improve and hopefully gather more data soon to remedy these ills

Originally Posted by multiweb

Very colourful field with good details. You'll need a lot more data to smooth it out.

Thanks Marc, I'm happy with the colour palette, and yes, you're quite right - as always, more data required!

Originally Posted by Placidus

What we especially like: the head of the seagull. In our version, which is rotated 180 degrees compared with yours, we saw the brain coral, of course, and two espresso coffee cups as seen from above, one strong in Ha, the other in OIII. In your version, we see that your right-hand coffee cup is actually the head of the seagull.

We can also see that we clipped the blacks in our version. You've got some faint nebulosity that we've missed. Well done! We're going to have to reprocess ours.

Best,
MnT

Cheers M&T, we always look forward to the insights from your finely tuned paradolia - thanks for feedback

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice composition and colour, Andy. Somewhat noisy and the stars are a bit funky as Peter noted. Could be a great image with a little more work

Cheers,
Rick.

Cheers Rick, I shall take the feedback onboard and endeavour to improve further sir!

Originally Posted by Atmos

It's looking good Andy, you're getting better stellar profiles than you have been in the past you've got that RC8 going quite well so far

I've imaged this a couple of times with different setups but never been quite as deep as this. A lot more going on than I've picked up in my versions

Cheers Colin! Yes APP has helped with the processing (I think) Hopefully the skies will clear again and I can push on with this image soon