[jase (Jason)]

Opps, missed these replies

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Beautiful image Jase - as always!! Any reason you keep the sky background so light? Bit of colour noise in there as well (?)
Congrats on your 1000th post too! At the rate I'm going the sun will be a white dwarf by the time I hit the submit buttom that many times. My STL is in rehab too - which doesn't help!
Cheers, Marcus

Hi Marcus,
Thanks mate. Yes, there is quite a lot of whitespace to the left of the histogram. I didn't want to raise the blackpoint too much on this image as I found I lost many background galaxies. I could have masked them again to selectively process the background. There is still some colour noise present. I haven't finished on the image as yet. I'm thinking of acquiring some Ha data and subtracting the red channel from it to see what will change in the RGB process. Not entirely sure. Too many options/permutations to think of - imaging is only limited to the astrophotographer's imagination. Thanks again for your comments.

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Very nice , a pleasure to view, dust lane detail is esquisite, as expected, and tastefull colour balance. Inspirational.

Cheers Fred. Pleased you like it (inspirational eh?).

Originally Posted by Kal

Awesome pic Jase. I've just sat here for about 10 minutes staring at it. It truly is something to marvel at and enjoy

Thanks Andrew. It helps to revisit images with fresh eyes. Having gone back to it, I can see some minor anomalies which I'll process out when I get a moment.

Originally Posted by Tamtarn

Very much the same comments as everyone else Jase ......... A truly wonderful image, very subtle processing revealing so much detail.

Your images are always worth waiting for and although we don't always understand your technical details on processing, we have picked up bits and pieces which have helped us in our progression. So thanks for sharing your expertise.

Thanks for the kind words Barb and David. It is a pleasure to assist you and others so they can develop their processing skills/knowledge of imaging set ups/techniques. Once I stop learning, I'll be quitting. Thanks again for your comments.

Cheers everyone