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Originally Posted by multiweb
Nice! The dust lanes in this galaxy look pretty full on. Heaps of colors  |
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Originally Posted by kinetic
That is just SOOO beautiful Marcus.
Awesome!.
Steve
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Superb image Marcus, so smooth rich colour. Great work.
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Originally Posted by allan gould
Really, really nice. Great shot and colour is excellent
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Originally Posted by RobF
Wow. That's beautiful Marcus  |
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Originally Posted by Craig_L
Stunning Marcus, the dust lanes standing out so well against those delicate colours.
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Thanks Marc, Steve, Paul, Allan, Rob & Craig. Glad you liked it! This galaxy wasn't on my radar until recently and I went for it because of it's vibrant colour & riot of dust lanes. The extent of the halo was an unexpected bonus.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
This is an excellent image Marcus.
Sure, with better seeing, bigger 'scope, ( preferably in low earth-orbit) you could do better.
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Thanks a lot Peter. Yep, a few moonless nights of sub arcsec seeing would be nice! I live in hope. Bigger scope? - maybe one day. I do occassionally daydream of owning a 14.5" RCOS'. I am amazed what a mere 5.9" scope will do though.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Excellent job Marcus
It's an awesome galaxy
It does look a bit close up to me, like I wish I could zoom it out a bit to take it in properly and hide the processing a bit..?
Wha tha? Too closeup????? I can see Freds startled face now   
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Cheers Mike - appreciate that! Waaa?? ......... too CLOSE UP!!!!
Ya just can't please some folks can ya!!
Seriously though, I'm not a big fan of the small-galaxy-in-a-large-featureless-star-field look unless it's a cluster.
Hide the PROCESSING!!!!!
Here, look below, I've attached the completely unprocessed RGB frame (initial stretch only, 50% scale & massively compressed) for your enjoyment
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Originally Posted by CoolhandJo
What a difference a bit of colour makes!
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Originally Posted by atalas
Top work Marc!
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Originally Posted by bluescope
Looks like it's on fire Marcus ... nice work !
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Originally Posted by Garyh
Excellent Marcus! I love those strong colors as well in galaxy shots!
cheers Gary
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Thanks guys. It does kind of look like it's on fire, I think it's the inferno-like look of Rob Gendler's rendition (see
here) that I liked.
Cheers, Marcus
Attached below: The "before" picture - completely unprocessed RGB frame (initial stretch only, 50% scale & massively compressed) for Mike's viewing pleasure