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M103 was created by phoenix

LRGB 140 minutes.



This is a crop from the full frame version

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Replied by Seanie_Morris on topic Re: M103

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?
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Replied by bertthebudgie on topic Re: M103

nice one... one of my fav. clusters :lol:
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Replied by Keith g on topic Re:

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

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Replied by michaeloconnell on topic Re: M103

Fantastic! Don't know how you could improve that image. Great work!
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Replied by dmcdona on topic Re: M103

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
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Replied by albertw on topic Re: M103

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'!)
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Replied by phoenix on topic Re: M103

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
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Replied by Seanie_Morris on topic Re: M103

Seanie... fishing line


10lb or 25lb capacity? :lol:
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Replied by ayiomamitis on topic Re: M103

Nice catch Kieran. Lots of beautiful colouration.
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Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re: M103

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.
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