[PRejto (Peter)]

Hi Russell,

Thanks for your comments! You are right about NGC2023. I might give it another go. I partly didn't want to pull the eye down below the head. The more interesting light seems just above the head and then to the left....


To be honest, I don't know why my images get that speckled look. I think I just need more time because they certainly get better with more time! But, the weather gods dictate otherwise for this image and after getting only 3 hours over 3 days I decided to quit knowing more bad weather is coming. I barely pushed this image at all so I hope it isn't over processing and I used masks to protect the stars from everything. The star background was only processed using Noise Ninja which helped quite a lot. I could try adding blurred noise but I'd rather figure out why this is happening and try to avoid it rather than fixing it.

Thanks for commenting!
Peter