[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

That's nice Lee. The jets are well seen and colour is excellent. Detail also superb.

Thanks Paul :-) Yeah, I don't usually push my images very hard in terms of faint detail, I've never been too successful with that, others have brought out the jets a lot better. I'm just happy you can see them at all.

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Fascinating. Lovely faint outer structures and well composed field.

Thanks Rodney!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Gee Lee...that's a really excellent 1097, detail and colour are super Loved looking around the image, a real galaxy lovers delight You are becoming the galaxy king

Mike

haha, thanks Mike. I don't know about the galaxy king, but I sure do like 'em. So much so that I've sold off my NB filters and will now focus pretty much exclusively on galaxies.

Originally Posted by Placidus

That is an image of exceptional class. Inspirational.

Thanks very much, Mike Have you guys done a colour image of this one? I found some very nice L data of yours, showing off those jets a lot better than I have, but no colour. Would love to see you guys show us how it's really done.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Lee,
that's an excellent picture.
I like the way you've kept the noise in the background -
it let's us see where the noise floor was.
The colours are great and the detail is superb.


cheers
Allan

Thanks very much Allan :-) I actually did quite a bit of noise reduction on this, but it led to a lot of artefacts so I diluted it significantly by blending it back with the original. I'd prefer less noise and that's something I may revisit.