[Octane (Humayun)]

Marc,

Thanking you!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great details in the dust lanes. Lovely star colors too on the overall field.

Paul,

Cheers. As mentioned to Mike, I'll increase the luminance and that should lift the galaxy a bit.

I'm not sure exactly which field flattener to purchase. I need to think of this quickly as it will be even worse on the STL-11000M. Can you recommend one?

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

H,
nice star colours but the galaxy looks overly orange to me. Maybe a slightly tigher crop would enhance the scale of the image.

I like the angle of the diffraction spikes.

A field flattener would also help make the image too.

Overall I really like the image but just some minor clean ups really.

Lester,

Thanks, mate. Looking back on it now, I could do with lowering the saturation on the stars.

Originally Posted by Lester

Good to see another of your classy images Humayun.

IMO it may be over saturated, which is adding the yellow/orange colour to the galaxy, as the blue stars look very blue also. Having said that, I like it a lot.

All the best.

Rolf,

Thanks! And, yep, due to it being a Seyfert, it's a bit dusty brown/orange.

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Wonderful image Humayun. I really like it. I would suspect the reddish colour of the galaxy is due to obscuring dust, being in Centaurus?

Eric,

Thanks for that -- I've fixed that now and just left it at Snake Valley.

Originally Posted by erick

Humayun, your location was more Snake Valley than Linton. If you want to be more specific you could say "Crystal Lake Cabins, near Snake Valley"!

That's a great start to the weekend's images!

H