LRGB 140 minutes.



This is a crop from the full frame version

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Wow... :shock: Absolutely stunning Kieran. The twinkle effect is bang-on, just subtle enough to give it that extra bit of character. How did you do that again?

nice one... one of my fav. clusters

Wow! It looks 3D to me great shot Kieran !

Keith..

Fantastic! Don't know how you could improve that image. Great work!

Kieran - I'm gonna have to be a dissenting voice here...

THe image is good in all respects (focus, tracking, colour etc)except the background looks a little too "noisy" on my monitor. Now, that could be a couple of things - real noise, my monitor or you've posted a low resolution image. I suspect the last item...

By the way, I have seen your other images and we know the quality of those.

Hope you take this constructively...

Cheers
Dave

Now, that could be a couple of things - real noise, my monitor or you've posted a low resolution image. I suspect the last item...

Looks a lot like jpeg compression noise on my screen.

That aside its a superb image. Are the diffraction spikes real or photoshopped? (I think that might be what Seanie means by 'twinkle effect'!)

Dave I think its definitely jpeg compression. The image I uploaded was 3.84 MB but on flick r it is 148 KB. I use flickr uploader and it used to ask if you wanted to compress the image before upload but this option seems to have disappeared. The program may be automatically compressing the image.

Seanie... fishing line

Seanie... fishing line

10lb or 25lb capacity?

Nice catch Kieran. Lots of beautiful colouration.

Hi Kieran,
Flickr auto converts the image for you, but does it rather badly, I have found you'd end up with a better image by doing the conversion in photoshop yourself rather then letting flickr do it for you.