Thought I'd share my latest capture. It's the first galaxy I've done since spring of last year, lots has changed in processing since then so I really had to spend some time going through new methods. Open to constructive criticism's!
Trying to be constructive here:
Not picking on you specifically, but this happens all the time here in this forum: someone posts an image that is quite often not really all that great and folks who seem to mostly live "here" might comment on it . Over in the lowly Beginners forum, the same object is the target for that month's Challenge and the accompanying discussion thread is where the real fun and learning goes on.
I am repeating a suggestion I have posted here in EDSI before: think about joining the discussion group at least if your subject matches the monthly challenge object in BDSI. You can either learn something, teach something or just share.
A matter of taste, but I find your colours are overcooked. And for 42 hours, you haven't got anywhere near the finer fainter structure you should have. Lots of ways to pulling that out, even some of the scripted stretches would be good starting points for more fine tuning with other more refined tools like curves or GHS or masked stretches. Or maybe just adjust your black point? I doubt sky conditions would take all the hit on that count. Care to share your raw stack to see if anyone can get more out of it or at least something different? That's where the fun is over in the Challenge. This sort of discussion, to and fro goes on all the time. Join the party!
