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Old 13-01-2013, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Stevec35 View Post
Excellent stuff Marcus! I've rarely seen that much detail in that galaxy. Good luck with the colour.

Cheers

Steve
Thanks very much Steve!

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Originally Posted by Paul Haese View Post
Marcus I agree an interesting galaxy. I like the interactive stream showing up too. Colour should look good. Is this a crop? Star sizes seem a bit big to me, so hence my question. That said the detail in the arms is superb and I think this will be a very nice image.
Cheers Paul - glad you liked it! Yes it's cropped - you're seeing about 72% of the full 4008 pixel wide frame. It's not scaled though. The galaxy is pretty small (for my scope) at around 3 x 13 arcmins so some cropping is in order for a pleasing composition. Not too sure about the stars looking big (?) - the dimmer ones are only about 2 pixels across (FWHM).
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