[richardo (Rich)]

Originally Posted by mill

I love the dustyness in this image, very well executed with nice colors

Thanks very much Martin for the comments.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Superb image Richardo

All round probably the best image of M78 posted here this season

Yu look to ahve sorted the stars out, is this a crop at all?

As good as it is, could I suggest tweeking up the contrast and shadowhighlights juuust a tad? Maybe do a contrast enhanced version, smooth the noise out where it has increased and then blend it in to this version to get just a little detail in those larger featurless areas.

This is only a Sidggestion () to try.. it may make this image pop a little more?

Really great job.
Mike

Geezzz, thanks Mike
No, I'm very happy with my stars now. Since I've started on the 'Orion' run.. previously I had to do a lot of work with squaring the CCD face plate (once again) using CCD Inspector. And, made a replacement compression ring that was wider for my focuser as well as re-tapping the screws to wider gauge.. seems to have sorted every thing out.
I only cropped some off the edges as I had some misalignment from the lum to the colour channels.
I actually did do a couple of runs of layering extra contrast to selective dark areas but steered away from the featureless areas as they contained the most noise... mmm might give it a go and see what I can do Mike..

Any way, something to do tomorrow... another stinking hot day, will be back up to 46*c again... at the mo it's a balmy 34*c and it's 11pm.. man what happened to the sea breeze
Cheers for the.. Sidggestion

Cheers guys.

All the best
Rich