[Garyh]

Originally Posted by EzyStyles

BEAUTIFUL GARY! i love it. colours look spot on and the image looks really smooth.

Thanks Eric! it was a cooler night which helped alot with the noise...

Originally Posted by Ric

Lovely image Gary, everything looks spot on with this one.

It seems to me that the dark dust lane can almost be seen to do a full 360 degrees. I've never noticed that before.

Cheers

Thanks Ric, always a pleasure!

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Really nice image Gary! Good definition and colour in the dust lane.

I notice a bit of a greenish tint in the halo though and some green stars - perhaps a bit of selective colour balancing would help?

Cheers, Marcus

Thanks Marcus! yeah I did play with the color balance a bit and I think I mucked it up a bit..back to have another go at it!
cheers Gary

Originally Posted by h0ughy

WOW that is fantastic, absolutely stunning, definitely a benchmark for me to aim for next year when I am fully set up. So with the accolades out of the way, what are the coloured doughnuts coming out from the galaxy? its like a yellow white then to a olive/brown/ purple then back to a bluey purple shell? or is that just my monitor?

Thanks houghy for pointing that out...
I didn`t really notice them till you pointed them out. I did notice the outer zone being a bit bluish but trying to color balance the galaxy I stuffed it up a bit..Have reprocessed it again and attached...

Originally Posted by theodog

Nice image Gary.
I too get the colour shift, but I didn't notice it untill it was pointed out.
Still, well done, -stunning image.

Thanks Jeff, I am happy with it except what has been noticed by a few of you...which is great! One has to get these colors right...

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Heres a method to tighten up your stars
copy and paste layer over original (use full size image for this),
select v to move,
using arrows move up and accross one or two pixels.
change blending mode to darken and stars will become more round.

if you are being more accurate you can resize to 300 % do this then resize down.

it may or may not improve the image as a whole, you can also do this selectively to areas if it affects the galaxy too much and that way minimise any unwanted effects. Worth a try anyway.

Thanks Alchemy for that tip!.. I shall give it a go later!
Always good to learn a good tip..

Thanks guys,
I have done a second go at stacking and processing this and have attached below..I think its much improved!...

I seem to get that banding or zoning when I use iso 400? Not sure why that is but...maybe its the dynamic range at that iso. Don`t really see it at iso 800. When stretching the image it just maked them more pronounced.. any ideas?
cheers Gary