let me introduce my recent astro-image I have finished processing right now. seeing was quite good 6-7/10 ( for my place this is rare), transparency could have been better (6-7/10) this beautiful galaxy is rather hard to process. the luminance dynamic range near the core is huge and this makes it a bit hard to bring up both - the dark as well as the brigfht areas without burning wholes into this region. colors are thin, ... here is the data: date: 13.3. 23h30 UT to 2h30 UT scope: 9 TMB Apo f/7 (using the 0,8 TeleVue reducer) CCD: Starlight Xpress SXV M25C exp: 3 hours in total (2,4,6,8 min frames) image acquisition, guiding and preprocessing in AstroArt 4 postprocessing in PS CS2 and Pix Insight LE please find time to click Yourself to the Galaxy: ---images---galaxy---m64 thanks for looking everyone. I`d be happy about any suggestions You might have in mind. http://stargazer.christelhager.info/sonic/index.html