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Your images are sublime - the colours in M106 are exquisite. and the veil has a real 3D quality to it, very well done!
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Until_then-Goodnight! wrote: Hi Richard,
Your images are sublime - the colours in M106 are exquisite. and the veil has a real 3D quality to it, very well done!
Clear skies,
Darren.
Thank you very much Darren.
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Paul Evans wrote: Richard this is fantastic work, well done and thanks for sharing it with us!
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Thanks Paul, glad you like them.
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Especially for the Veil Nebula.
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flt158 wrote: Those colours are so strong and vivid, Richard.
Especially for the Veil Nebula.
Clear skies from Aubrey.
Thanks Aubrey. Hope you got to enjoy the clear sky this weekend.
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Kinch wrote: Hi Richard - glad to see you posting here - as always, your work is a joy to have a close look at. I particularly like the Veil Nebula, it came out great. Sometimes the multitude of small stars in the region can spoil the final image - but you have controlled them beautifully.
Thanks Brendan, I got very lazy indeed. You're right the stars need taming on the Veil. Starnet does a great job removing them, then it's just a matter of using a less stretched version to replace them. I did notice a slight misalignment of the stars in some parts which need attention probably down to when i recombined the channels after stacking.
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I do the "same" in a slightly different way. I use StarNet too....but not to remove the stars, but rather just to make a very nice StarMask. Obviously then I can work on the nebula and the stars separately.....but I never lose sight of the stars

I got lazy for quite a while too.....but some guys looking in here do not look in on FaceBook or whatever. I cannot contribute or comment on their observing reports but I think they still like to have a look from time to time what the photographers are doing. So I hope you will return to the fold.....your images are always tops and I am sure some budding photographers would appreciate more images from different people going up here.
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