[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Thanks a lot John, Paul and Alex for your appreciation

Originally Posted by alexch

As for the spiral structure, I came across this deep image yesterday:
http://forum-images.pixinsight.com/c.../lmc_large.jpg
(done by Carlos Milovic, from http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22862 thread)
She does look like a barred spiral to me on both your image and the one inked above.

Yep, I saw this image as well and have to say it puzzles me a bit, since on my luminance file, despite the several hours of light collection under one of the darkest skies available I cannot stretch to get the view of this structure even if I equalize the summed fits. I will give it a try again, I would like to compare to see if the structure is actually there and exclude the possibility of flatting artifacts.. I don't have info on the lens used or imaging time for Carlos though so cannot compare the details..

Clear Skies
Marco