[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

Tell you what Jase, a shot like that would be good enough for me, never mind quibbling about noise in the background!!!

Cheers renormalise! Actually, I think the noise is attributed to the monitor I'm using. I checked out the image on a laptop and it doesn't appear to be present. I do all my processing on EIZO pro-graphics monitor which is rather discriminating to details. Its all good.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Very nice Jase! lovely colors and processing and plenty of very faint detail extending out around the galaxies. Didn`t notice the noise but did notice a little blooming on the real bright stars...but that doesn`t worry me!
Top work like always
Gary

Thanks Gary. I'm working on the blooming problem. Been trying some masking techniques as I've found the debloomer plugin in Maxim is good, but not optimal. Need to work on the process to use them both. Thanks again for your comments.

Originally Posted by RB

I'm glad you also post your failures too Jase......


With measly offerings like this who needs sucess........

Jase I just love your work.
In this one I love how the dust lane extends from the outer left spiral up into the top white core and seems to just glow !

Onya mate.

Cheers RB Much appreciated. The dust lane extensions make this an interesting object to acquire. I took of a few longer subs to bring this out and just discard most of the other data from them. This was simply applied using a basic mask. Nothing major. I still think a little more noise reduction may assist, but I'll leave it for now.

Originally Posted by gbeal

Lovely Jase. Good to see you keeping your hand in.
Gary

Thanks Gary. Yeah, Its been a healthy break, but in all seriousness work and family have kept me occupied.

Originally Posted by rogerg

Looks nice Jase. I'd been wondering if you were around, for some reason hadn't seen posts from you for a while. But then I haven't been keeping a close eye on the Deep Space forum.

I like the shot, very nice colour. Is there slight trailing? the stars don't look perfectly round (ignoring blooming). A little distracting to me. Regardless of that it's a shot I'd be happy with if it were mine.

Thanks Roger. I hope to be around here a little more pending variables outside my control. There was slight elongation on the green channel which I believe is the cause. I thought I'd still go with the RGB combine then correct it later (as to not disturb the colour balance). I draw a line at fixing stars when it comes to using the smudge tool or similar. I think if it gets that desperate, might as well acquire more data than spend hours on end tweaking things in PS. Theoretically - good optics + good mount + good environmental conditions reduces image processing time assuming the data collected is good, but this doesn't always calculate. I spend hours on the computer trying to extract as much info from the data as possible. Its pleasing when it comes together. Thanks again for your comments.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

nice work jase

Thanks Houghy. Pleased you liked it.