[David Fitz-Henr]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

That's beautiful David!

So much going on in this image and you have balanced it well.

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin!

Originally Posted by Satchmo

Congrats David- your dedication to building a premium imaging scope and methodical imaging technique is certainly paying dividends.
Amazing detail in the galaxy . Perhaps worth posting a crop of the galaxy from the full frame given most of it is foreground stars?

Thanks Mark - I have attached a crop of just the galaxy as well (with some added colour processing as per Greg's comments below).

Originally Posted by gregbradley

A great inaugral image.

The stars show a heavy magenta coloured bias which at first looks like Chromatic Aberration.

I would get the colour balance more sorted. Galaxies are more of a blue not magenta so selective colour tool in Photoshop would be a good place to start pulling down the magentas and increasing the cyans probably.

Greg.

Yes I believe you're right now that I look at it again. Sheez, I've reprocessed this several times now - it's almost as hard as building the scope itself I had turned the red up too much I think in order to highlight the emission nebulae in the galaxy, which has resulted in too much magenta. I've turned it down (using Colour Balance tool) and also used the Selective Colour tool (hadn't tried this before) as you suggested. The cropped image that I have just attached (as per Mark's suggestion) has these changes. Let me know what you think and I'll replace the main image on my pbase site.