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Originally Posted by Alchemy

hmmmm dont know , its tough call, i see what you have tried to do... but there is a faint loop on the left of the initial image thats quite obvious, but not so in the second. i actually prefer the first but i would like to see it in a wider FOV to judge the edges better , but it looks as though its an extremely hard one to image.... not one ive done.... but then most of the ones you do arent ones ive done.

as always, i enjoy looking at your work

cheers clive.

Hello Clive,

This is the sort of object that doesn't lead to natural processing. It's a case of digging it out of the background and hope for the best.

I think the second image shows the galaxy more clearly differentiated from the background compared to the first.

Incidentally the AAO image is so stretched the galaxy looks more like a globular cluster.

Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

That's what I call a labour of love! Top stuff!

Thanks for that. Actually it's been one big headache.

Originally Posted by renormalised

Damn good job on that, Steven.

Thanks for your comments Carl.

Regards

Steven