Thanks for the compliments guys, and the feedback.
Peter. The stars were seperate short exposures, but I still have trouble getting good colour on them, and yes, I did clip them a bit, ill fix it (or did you mean droping them altogether?).
Dave. "normality", in a slightly wonky sort of way
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Doug, OK, ill fix that gradient.
Marcus/Mike. The noise reduction is severe in places, but the dust halo is in fact very fuzzy anyway, and very large, I actually decurved and reduced it a bit, due to noise . The stars in the middle are oddly smeared, ive seen that in nearly all galaxy pics, its almost like its something else than stars, nebs perhaps?. The tinge is not obvious on my monitor, ive never set it up tho,mmm might have to do that.
The faint veins in the dust lane were there, but extremely noisy, ill have another go at that, but it gets to boarderline hand painting then
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Greg. The tails are extremely dim, you sometimes dont see them at all in pics, and noisy, hence the smoothing, again, ill have another go.
This is the kinda feedback I needed guys, especially the magenta/red tinge/gradient I dont see on my monitor, noise and edgy stars.
Thanks again
