[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A couple of spectacular Marco images. Always a treat.

The Dumbbell is very good especially when the bulk of the data was gotten in Australia. The large number of overly yellow/red stars is showing the colour extinction. Anyway of countering that with star masks and selective colour? Not that important though.

The Sculptor is an impressive image. I have always thought galaxies are way larger than usually presented and your image is further proof of that theory. I have not seen the outer halo like this before so that is a first.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I have actually reprocessed both images since following some suggestions (including Mike here) they were a bit out of color and perhaps too "artificial".

Here are the link:

M27 old version: http://www.glitteringlights.com/Imag...qGrM&lb=1&s=X3
M27 new version: http://www.glitteringlights.com/Imag...cdT3&lb=1&s=X3

NGC253 old version: http://www.glitteringlights.com/Imag...8PJc&lb=1&s=X3
NGC 253 new version: http://www.glitteringlights.com/Imag...VVWs&lb=1&s=X3

I would be interested in having your feedbacks..

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Jason Jennings got some of it last year and another German imager (friend of Gerd Neumann) who's name escapes me did a fantastic shot of it that showed it very nicely but I can't remember his name and can't find it, now you, Werner Rossnagel also did one and its at the Alluna Optics web site, otherwise that's it I think? The halo in yours seems the brightest.

Mike

Thanks for pointing out the images Mike, very interesting! The one in Alluna website is impressive! I have repro (almost) completely NGC253, correcting the colors, reducing the saturation (in perticolare in the core where the yellow was covering other colors), limited the stretch and kept a more natural looking. Links above. How does it look now?

Originally Posted by Ross G

Two beautiful photos Marco.

Amazing!

Thanks.

Ross.

Thanks Ross

Originally Posted by RobF

Wonderful images Marco. I love your 253 too. Me senses more than a touch of Pixinsight in there - looks like multiscale transform at work amongst others? Halo sure is inspiring - presumably taken from a very dark sky site?

Yes, Multiscale transform Perhaps overdone, now with the repro it should be much better..
Both taken from Coona...

Clear Skies
Marco