Hi Eric
This image of the Great Nebula is just fantastic and I agree it's deffinitely worth a few struts up and down your steet in the buff
I feel the excitement I know you have been feeling since you started processing that baby and I know exactly what it is like. My very last imaging session before sending off my entries for the David Malin awards in 2005 was a case in point. It was the last image of the morning and after a near flawless LHaRGB imaging run with the 80ED and SXV-H9, I packed up and shut down then went inside about 4am or so. I of course imedeately proceeded to align, combin, layer, adjust, adjust, adjust and for good measure adjust again! The excitement level rose further and further as the image grew and improved and started to reveal it's star quality. A couple of hours later I printed off the final version as a glossy 8" X 10" colour print and mounted it on foam core board...I did all this before the Sun rose!
. I was holding it in my hands standing in our living room near our full length wall of glass waiting for the level of natural sunlight to increase in the house as my wife struggled out of bed. All bleary eyed my wife smiled and said "what are you doing dear?" and no joke I said to her in my sleepless stupor.."This is it darlin, I know it, this will win!" the rest is history
Somtimes you just know when somethings good!
Give it every bit youve got mate you are a rising star!
Mike