thanks folks.. glad you like it!
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Love the tendrils just below and to the left of the blue nebula.
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yeah.. i'm loving the whole region but between the blue nebula and flame especially. previous attempts with DSLRs have barely hinted at all that dusty region below the horsehead. definitely happy with the move to CCD imaging now
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Originally Posted by Octane
Most beautiful star colours, also.
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I had to work to remove some green and other false colours around the mid-range stars. a bit of star size reduction in ImagesPlus and Median filter on the RGB layer in Photoshop has kept it under control while leaving the real blues and yellows of the strongly coloured stars. the end result seems ok.
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Originally Posted by CoolhandJo
The star spikes are the best I have seen!
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hmm.. generally i like the effect, but i actually wish i could control the main spike from alnitak a bit better, rather than it fanning out so much as it leaves the frame. the epsilon astrograph has really chunky spider vanes (very well constructed) but the spikes are pretty enormous as a result. despite having collimated it as best i could, i seem to always find one spike stronger than the others. the image centre was also slightly shifted between the two nights, which meant a small amount of relative rotation of the scope to sky, which doubled up/blurred the spikes a little as well.
looks great on the pleiades though
Wow! Best wide field HH I've ever seen. Amazing stuff. 
