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Originally Posted by gregbradley
That turned out great Marcus. Can't fault it, it looks fabulous.
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Thanks Greg!. Nice to get a bit of clear sky in these parts isn't it!! Can't wait for the next drought (in Sydney only of course)!!
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
You miss understood me I think? I said this image looks good at 100% 
It's not about hiding the detail, sometimes the processing doesn't lend itself to 100% IMO and it kinda looks better presented as a smaller image, that's all.
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No worries Mike - appreciate that. I understand what you're saying. In fact my M78 image falls into that category (and I recall you mentioned it then) because it's quite faint (it needed twice the exposure) and I had to work hard to render the small amount of signal present. For Eta though, I almost had too much signal!
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Originally Posted by Rigel003
I must admit that eta carinae, despite its brightness and size, isn't one of my favourite deepsky photographic objects. Just a bit too bland and monotonal compared with M42 eg, it can come across like an enormous flat pink clover leaf. Having said that, this photo is a revelation, Marcus. Fantastic amount of tonal and textural variety. The lighter purple swathes against the pink background give a real 3D look. Interesting detail everywhere and I love the contrasting star colours. A major achievement.
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Thanks very much Graeme - high praise indeed! It was a revelation to me too - and it really shouldn't have been! I've been saying for a long time that there are no boring objects out there! Every object, when treated with enough data and effort
will yield beautiful nuance. I proved that again to myself with Eta which, until now, I've tended to dismiss as a worthy target!!
