[stevous67 (Steve M)]

Hi Guys ~ Thanks for the comments. Looking at the image after a break, the stars in the outer arms look somewhat ... terrible, but I should have good enough data to replace that.

Originally Posted by OneCosmos

There is nothing you could do to improve that it is simply stunning - perfection. I'm in awe

Thanks Chris.

Originally Posted by jsmoraes

Since you asked for commentary, if it is possible to this excellent image, I can suggest a little reduction of red saturation. On large image , with zoom, you can see some noise due to it. But, really, I don't know if it worth.

Jorge you may be right, I'm going to go back to my first PS entries to check what I did. I'll check the reds, plus calibrate my monitor.

Originally Posted by RickS

Lovely image, Steve! Having had a go at NGC 6744 recently I know what a difficult target it is and you've done a great job.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thank's Rick.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Apart from the technical bits and pieces a nice tidy image

Thanks Trevor, yes the technical bits...sometimes I look at an image for too long and go blind. Cheers.

Originally Posted by bmitchell82

Just some technical issues,

You have black rings around the stars within the galaxy which suggests that you pushed your sharpening possibly too far?

For the seeing being so good, the over all image (stars especially) look really soft compared to some of your other images, possibly a focus issue? or the seeing wasn't as good as you thought (I know your running AO how many Hz was it running at?). When the seeing is crap around my neck of the woods my stars get really soft other wise they are crisp without need of any sharpening. for comparison see here and here where the first one has a fair bit of deconvolving and the second does not.

Possibly the overall image could get a bit of saturation love, it looks slightly flat in some places but cooked in others.

Apart from that the guiding and framing are fine well done

BM

Hi Brendan, you're right with your comments. Marc linked me to some tut's on avoiding those horrid halos, I should have read them last weekend!

About the guiding, I think the AO was cycling at about 7hz. The soft stars may have been a focus issue? I'm going to go back to the start to check my luminance data.

I appreciate the feedback Brendan.