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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
It comes down to "enhancement" and reality. It is not a hard task to enhance any part of an image, simply to show some aspect of feature.
However, when literally "brush stroking" in localized sharpening, one needs some "higher knowledge" that the feature is indeed present, and not simply a random interpretation of an astronomical ink blot test.
Really high res images (eg the ESO data I linked to) of NGC253 do not show these streamers. Not much more to say really....
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First of all not a bad NGC 253 Peter.
Those streamers are deffinitely real but RJ just enhanced and extended them in a way that I too found a bit fakish but as most agree it is still an amazing image of NGC 253 regardless.
I've posted a link to this before but I still think the best natural looking but very dramatic NGC 253 and surrounds image by an amateur style scope is this one and the streamers are very visible across the disc too but far more naturally:
http://www.spiegelteam.de/ngc253.htm
Mike