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[theodog (Jeff)]

Hi All,
Took this over the new year. Just returned from a trip to the cloudy coast and brought some back with me.

Details the same as the Crab neb posted earlier except;
15x10min L's
and I discovered how to adjust colour saturation.
**Just noticed it did strange things to some stars**
Cheers

[mick pinner]

great image Jeff, maybe try a little different processing and tone it down a bit. only a suggestion, my processing skills are dodgy at best.

[Ric]

Nice capture Jeff, maybe a tad reddish in the galaxy but none the less it's a good shot.

Cheers

[Garyh]

Looks good Jeff, a little over saturated but color balance looking good. Core is a bit burned out so you will have to mask this area when you are bringing out the fainter arms..but a nice result
cheers Gary

[tornado33]

I like the knots of blue stars in the outer arms, well done
Scott

[jase (Jason)]

This is a very pleasing image. It certainly has depth gained from the good data. The fainter spiral extensions have come out really well. Perhaps perform a DDP so you get an idea of what the data will look like when stretch correctly (though DDP may have issues with the nucleus, thus suppress the dynamic range).

[Alchemy (Clive)]

nice detail just outside the core and the arms show up well without having made the sky background noisy. mind you 150mins exposure will help the noise problem.

theres a nice variety of images on show at the moment

[theodog (Jeff)]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

mind you 150mins exposure will help the noise problem.

Yes, I have come to the conclusion that many subs is the way to go. Even if it means multi-night images.

"Perhaps perform a DDP so you get an idea of what the data will look like when stretch correctly (though DDP may have issues with the nucleus, thus suppress the dynamic range)."Jase

Tried this -not good but will try different parameters.

"Core is a bit burned out so you will have to mask this area when you are bringing out the fainter arms..but a nice result"Garyh

I havent mastered the 'mask' yet.

Thanks for the positive comments and advice.