Don't crusify me, you can blame this repro on Frank Bonneville, he described a technique to darken backgrounds so juuuuust for fun, I had a play with it and after playing with his description, plus a couple of other tweeks, here is another version of that now infamous Centaurus A ultra deep field

(crop from full frame image)
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...05041/original
Not necessarily better but slightly different..?
On ya guys
Mike
ducking for cover