[Paul Haese]

Thanks all for the comments and suggestions.

Originally Posted by gbeal

Aye, T'is a lovely shot Paul, as we have come to expect from you. The corners suffering slightly? Being picky I know.
What is the dew issue? Is it the secondary? If so, perhaps look at a specific dew heater, like I got from the SDM man, it goes inside the secondary holder and just has a wire protruding.
Gary

Gary, the corners have problems due to it not being flat fielded and collimation needs more attention. A perfectly valid observation for sure.
Dew is not only the secondary but also the primary. I will take a look at the SDM option, it might work quite well and remove this particular problem. Thanks.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

You're on a roll Paul.

Very nice.

Now for some serious exposure time.

Greg.

Yeah my thoughts too. Any suggestions? I was thinking 10 hours. 4.4 is not quite enough.

Originally Posted by Bassnut

A good effort Paul, but. This is a difficult one to not look messy, more to do with processing than capture. Just IMO, uniqely, Trant sometimes presents better with less overwhelming star action, and less neb extention to preserve the 3d effect the narly bits can provide. Its an artistc interpretation of course, your rendition is natural, but to stand out, sometimes extra thought on processing is handy.

A Sid in this regard, as a second choice might be interesting?

Fred, totally agree about this area, even guiding just slight off like this effort can make it look wrong. I would welcome any suggestions you have about lessening the stars and increasing the 3D effect.

Pardon my ignorance but what is Sid? Can you explain how to do this?

Originally Posted by AlexN

Agreed... If you upped the strength of the Ha in the data it should dull out the stars a bit and you could numb down the stars and bring in more of the sharp detail that Ha provides... You could be ultra daring, and remove the stars all together Dare to be different!

Alex how do I up the Ha strength? How do I numb down the stars? I have not explored this yet.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Excellent Paul

You are improving at a rate of knotts with that new setup

If you are after contructive critique the only thing I would say is it does look a bit monochromatic...?..not sure why but could be due to the ha blending . The sharpening looks to get noticably stronger towards the centre and imparts a flattened look to the image but this is perhaps just the undercorrected optics..?

Only minor feedback above though, this is great work.

Mike

Mike, with the blend I just stacked one lot and then the red and then summed them together. Do you have a suggestion for how I should blend it? Did I do the wrong thing?

I did a mask and sharpened the image that way using the one I learnt on Ken Crawford's site. Did you have a suggestion for making it look better?

Thanks once again for everyones comments.