Ok Ok I capitulated.....
You were rrrrrr...ri...rig...righ...t Jase and Markus
I can admit it, I was a stupid complete loser, fancy not thinking I neededd to reduce some noise
nooooow I can see it
I bit the bullet and decided to dam well give producing a hopefully natural low noise version of my Grus/Pisces Austrinus galaxy cluster a real go. I worked hard on preserving as much background detail as possible and increased the detail in the main galaxies a tad and it looks as thought I didn't lose a thing, except most of the noise
Sorry for any percieved anti...anti-noise ranting
1.2 meg 40% size image:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...94112/original
9 meg full size full frame image:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...94231/original
I'll be a bit more careful next time
Oh well, you live and learn
Mike