[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by Placidus

At first I suspected that the faint nebulosity was tidal tails from the gravitationally disrupted galaxy, and perhaps some of it really is, but on downloading and further stretching your magnificent image, I can see that the nebulosity is much to general to be fully explained by tidal tails.

Superb.

Best,
Mike

Thanks Mike :-) I'm definitely an astrophotographer rather than an astronomer so the details of NGC 1313's formation and the dust in this field is beyond me. From what I've read though, NGC 1313 is believed to be a field galaxy, that is, gravitationally alone (source: Wikipedia, APOD) so I don't think they have a good explanation for it's morphology or the dust in the field.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

My version looks dark compared to yours. I like yours better. I am going to take a look at mine now.

I missed your one when I was digging around for examples, Paul. Aesthetically, I definitely prefer yours to mine. I got carried away with a multiscale processing technique that enabled me to bring the dust out a lot more than I've been able to in the past. I blended it back in with a more traditionally processed image because it was looking pretty over baked at the end, but it's still pushed pretty hard. I'm happy to have brought out the dust, but I don't think it looks nice... again I prefer yours.

Originally Posted by topheart

A great target Lee and a wonderful rendition!!
Cheers,
Tim

Thanks Tim! Definitely an interesting target :-)