NGC 6744 and Galactic Cirrus dust

[tornado33]

Yep another lovely image there. Everything looks like its done just right, colourbalance, and contrast/brightness with nothing artificial about it. Well done
Scott

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very Nice image Mike but you need to use less talcum powder.
Nice to see something different from CentA.
Keep them coming.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by tornado33

Yep another lovely image there. Everything looks like its done just right, colourbalance, and contrast/brightness with nothing artificial about it. Well done
Scott

Cheers Scotty, glad you are on my processing wavelength...I think we may be slightly in the minority

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very Nice image Mike but you need to use less talcum powder.
Nice to see something different from CentA.
Keep them coming.

There is talcum powder all over the higher galactic areas, brighter in some areas than others of course. NGC 253 has no galactic cirrus around it for example where as Cen A and NGC 6744 have a thin faint layer but it gets much thicker closer to the SCP/NCP regions though:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...74684/original

&

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...17424/original

Mike

[gregbradley]

Sweet image of the queen of galaxies!

I did not realise it is starting to rise again.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Sweet image of the queen of galaxies!

I did not realise it is starting to rise again.

Greg.

Starting to rise..??? where you been man?..it's West of the meridian on dark mate!

Going at 100 miles an hour Greg huh?

Mike

[gregbradley]

So it is.

I must've had the time set wrong on this copy of the Sky as I just checked it before I posted last and it seemed to be rising. I did it again and it is as you say past the peak on the downhill slide. Still time to image it though for a bit longer.

Greg.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Mike,

Wow! Gorgeous, just gorgeous.

It looks so lonely floating there all by its lonesome.

Regards,
Humayun

[RB (Andrew)]

Yep absolutely breathtaking Mike, I tend to like the blue feel too.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Mike,

Wow! Gorgeous, just gorgeous.

It looks so lonely floating there all by its lonesome.

Regards,
Humayun

It does look a bit lonely I guess, I was hoping to get much more exposure but I lost a lot of subs due to an issue I had with guiding which I later rectified plus friggin satellites, they were in a lot of subs (including one bright one right through the galaxy) plus the wind plus just not enough DAM TIME! I was imagining a shot similar to my deep Cen A so it would have been a bit more interesting but in the end..?..err? all of the above?

Gee I complain a lot huh?

Originally Posted by RB

Yep absolutely breathtaking Mike, I tend to like the blue feel too.

Yes I find myself leaning toward a slight blue cast most of the time these days, must be that my eyes like that look ....?

Mike

[gregbradley]

Its funny but I also tend to lean towards liking a blue feel to images. If it has a green cast it looks bad, a red cast isn't as bad but not appealling but blue is easier to have.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Its funny but I also tend to lean towards liking a blue feel to images. If it has a green cast it looks bad, a red cast isn't as bad but not appealling but blue is easier to have.

Greg.

Yeh... it's probably just a crazy, idiosyncratic fetish of ours?