NGC6946 in Cepheus

Dave - what processing did you do to the image?

Dave here's the log from images plus; After this I took it to CS2 where I did a couple of things which I can't quite remember. I think I used Noel Carboni's noise reduction tool and thats it. Interestingly someone on ukastroimaging said he thought it was too red, but when I put a less red version up everyone said they preferred the first one!

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Jeez Dave, you are really taking off!! That's a superb shot of this galaxy considering there is a lot of stars and dust (galactic that is ) in the way!!

Worthy of publication in any magazine !

Keith..

Thanks Kieth (and all for comments). Great to see you around again BTW!