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Originally Posted by telemarker
This is one of those rare images that makes you say "WOW!" beautifully executed and processed. Bigger than Ben Hur. 
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Thanks Keith!
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Originally Posted by MrB
Ahh! That is what was bothering me in my original post. (#5)
I have very little practical experience with these things so wasn't 100% sure.
It is still a damn fine image! 
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Hehe, it seems I definitely have to give it a twist
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Originally Posted by dugnsuz
Exquisite detail Marco, the more I look at it...the more I see - my only question is what's the cause of the off-axis halos on the bright stars? I ask this as they often plague my images too.
Cheers
Doug
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These halos are due to reflections from the RGB filters or the CCD window. I should investigate it a bit further but never paid to much attention to them since they never really bothered me. They are centered or off axis depending of the position of the star respect the ccd center (i.e. optical axis center). If If you look at Alniltak for example, in my image the reflection is at right of the star since this part of the mosaic is coming from the left the left panel, while the bright star just above the Horsehead has the halo at its left because this star is already taken from the right panel image. Magic of the blending makes everything look smooth and apparently seemingless.
Clear skies
Marco