[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Thanks everybody for the nice words and even more for the constructive critics, as I wrote the first one doubtful about this processing was me. Indeed it is an unconventional version, I have reprocessed with your feedbacks the image and now I have uploaded a more traditional one, using the same dataset.

Here is the new version

(here is the old one)

I would really appreciate to have your opinion on which one you prefer, my preference is for the second one

Below some comments to your mex:

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Oh man these are deep. Just looking at the other shots also.

I think you have a secret space telescope for your own personal use lol.

Hehe, I wish, simply the skies down under are amazing!

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Sorry, looks a little " posterised" and un-natural to me. The dynamic range is compressed and colour a little too blue.

Still a pretty image, and I can see some rolling their eyes, but hey, it often comes down to personal taste...and I call it as I see it

Thanks Peter, these are the comments I was looking for, see above for the repro

Originally Posted by Octane

Good to see you've got PixInsight tamed for mosaics!
H

Thanks H, yep, PI is really a great piece of software for that!

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Agree with Peter. The image looks quite flat and at original resolution shows this very well. It does look a little blue, but colour in NB tends to be dealers choice.

I am sure you will go over this several times more yet and I look forward to your future interpretations of the data.

As per Peter, thanks Paul for the comment, made me repro the image (above). Now let me know if the new version addressed the problems of the former one please

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

This looks very vibrant Marco and provides a great journey surfing around the large version. The resolution of the finer features seems a little lower than I would have expected but zoomed out a bit it is a great field and has plenty of zing . Certainly not conventional in appearence so it won't totally please everyone but c'est la vie... Another great project executed very nicely....look out when I finally get an observatory!!! ....

Mike

Thanks Mike, well, my FL is still pretty little and I didn't apply any deconvolution on the luminance, but definitely there is margin to improve as per your note, thanks mate

Clear skies
Marco