Whew lots of responses to reply to here.
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how dark and clear are your skies?
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i live 64ks from Melbourne CBD, the west shows sky glow to 45 deg on the horizon, to the east its pretty good, not quite outback , but no filters are required to combat light pollution (apart from my neighbours floodlights
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I particularly like the wide field, the colour in the stars
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thanks dennis ( i will comment more on this at end of post)
plus jase does do a remarkable job with his processing ..... check out the link dennis provided
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And what's with the budget being increased? Have you mentioned that new scope you wanted?
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SSSHHHHHH....... One step at a time 
weve just had one win , better not push it for a little while
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Well, the first one (the one on the left) looks pretty well spot on to me mate, in fact it looks very familiar!
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Cheques in the mail mike
. That puts you in the professional section for the Malins now
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But...
The stars seem to have been clipped a bit, resulting in either pale orange or pale blue stars. Maybe there's a little too much blue.
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well thats one for and one against so far... more to say later.
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I do see what you mean Stuart, regarding Clives stars
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Make that 2:1
Ok the colored stars, this was deliberate. i got a very early version and saturated it stretched it saturated it etc, used the color range tool and selected enough stars so as to copy into the almost finished image, and blended on a percentage. Without doing something like this all i get is stars that are white (particularly the blue ones ) with a tiny colored ring around the extremity. this is the first ive done this way.... perhaps a slightly lower percentage rate for the blend...... i will wait to see what the general concensus is..... i will hunt the hard drive for the version without the colors to the stars added.... give me an hour or 2 as pizza has just arrived
To all thanks for looking, i would be interested in others opinions on the star colors.
clive.