Cetus A group, another rework

[DaveS]

I hesitate to post this as I'm dubious about the quality, but heigh-ho. In any case it's yet another silk purse effort.

The data was collected over 9 (!) nights between the end of Sept 2022 and the last week of Jan 2023, though not all the data was useable as I had cable dragging that caused massive trailing. And of course all the subs have that horrid corruption from reflections.

Graxpert helped but I still had to use a masked histogram stretch and multiple rounds of single colour attenuation in AstroArt 8, in addition to all the PI magic pixies. 69 mixed 5 and 10 min Lum subs (Accidental, not intentional), 11 17.5 min Blue subs, 19 10 min Green subs and 17 10 min Red subs (G2v calibration).

Yes, there's a horrible green halo around the upper left star, no I can't be asked to remove it, plus a touch of Unsharp Mask and another slight Red reduction in the galaxies.

Feel free to tear this apart, I won't be offended.

 

[WolfieGlos]

Well I really like it Dave, better than my effort that I also nearly didn't post! 

Nice detail in both galaxies, granted about the green star, why not just crop it out? Are you more annoyed at losing a lot of subs from the cable snag or the processing?

[Albir phil]

I think its a great image green star or not, nothing wrong with a bit of colour variety 

[ONIKKINEN]

You are too harsh on yourself, its a good image! Very nice details on the galaxies, and i am not at all offended by the green glow of that bright star.

[Mr Spock]

That's a lovely image. Nice detail 👍

[geoflewis]

It's a cracking image Dave. As others have said, you're too harsh on yourself.

[DaveS]

Thanks for the positive comments all. I guess I can be very self critical, and a bit of a perfectionist.

[callisto]

Well I love it 

 

Mark 

[tomato]

Great crisp detail in both M77 and NGC1055. I personally wouldn’t crop the bright stars out, that would bring the galaxy too close to the edge of the frame, and I like what they bring to the image.

Edited March 19 by tomato
Typo corrected

[DaveS]

Thanks guys.

Yes, I think cropping the two stars at the left would be a mistake, bringing the edge of the frame too close to NGC 1055, plus they do bring something to the image, green glow or not. I have had to crop off quite large alignment edges already, especially from the right of the frame, I think my sky model or PA wasn't quite as accurate as I thought. Since rectified BTW.

[ollypenrice]

That green glow... I bet you could be persuaded... 

These are great galaxies.

Olly