[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by DavidU

Nice work there Marcus ! 7hrs on the Tak just works. The #67 seems to do the job
Excellent

Thanks a lot David! The 67 is a sweet piece of glass for sure ... should be too - it wasn't cheap!

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Very smick Marcus, lots of sharp detail fishing around in the big version, and nice colour too.

Thanks Fred. Interestingly I didn't apply any sharpen filters to this image except for some "real" unsharp masking to enhance contrast.

Originally Posted by RB

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful Marcus !
Gorgeous colours, stars nice and tight, what more can I say.
The full frame almost gave me vertigo.

A beautiful frame indeed.

The TOA 150 with 67 flattener......mmmmmmmm !

Hey thanks Andrew & fellow TOA'er! Yep, I think I need to do more imaging at F7.3 - stars are pinpoints edge to edge!

Originally Posted by multiweb

That is superb Marcus. The colours and resolution are unreal. What a shot! By Ls do you mean you stacked the masters RGB into another Lum in addition of the Lum data you shot?

Cheers Marc. I use Ls by layering in a desaturated version of the combined RGB image in PS. The method really depends on what you want to achieve but in this case, as well as improving S/N, I wanted to rein in the stellar profiles so I did a darken layer at 67% after making sure the nebulosity was normalised with the raw lum.

Originally Posted by Lumen Miner

That's just UNREAL!!!

Thanks Mitchell glad you liked it!

Originally Posted by Lester

Thanks Marcus, that is a beautiful image.

Cheers, Lester!

Originally Posted by renormalised

Only one word....gorgeous!!!!

Another work of scientific art....great shot Marcus

Thanks Carl - if there's one thing I've learned, processing is indeed 80% art and 20% science!

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Think you are on a roll now...do ya?...punk?

Damm...very tidy indeed.

Thankyou master, I am most unworthy of your praise .

I guess if the clouds are not rolling in as often as usual then, yes, I'm on a roll. (DANG!!! Shouldn't have said that should I - they probably heard me! )

Look forward to your first STX shot!

Cheers, Marcus