Bird,
I like your first version more, this one is too 'bubbly' instead of 'spotty'.
Leroi's images does not only have a high resolution, but are also very wel processed with very few artefacts, albeit a bit yellowish in my opinion.
It is also a nice demonstration that aperture does matter, as long as the seeing co-operates.
What also surprises me is that the optimised mode shows less posterising than the normal mode, last year I found the opposite, so this might be due to the different settings required when switching modes.
Cheers,
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