Hi Serena,

Is it winter now, yet ;-) We are in a heat wave here: 26.5C out now
and it is only 9:30 in the morning!

Thanks for the kind words on the Swan Nebula. I went for two 5
minute exposures for the red luminance. They bloomed rapidly, so I
just dealt with them in post processing. The issue becomes one of
discovery: are there any fainter stars within the boundaries of the
blooming spikes that I need to or want to reproduce? That can be a
difficult one.

The nebulosity detail is something that really shines through when
using the Adobe Photoshop Luminance Layering Technique. Other
softwares, like MaxImDL, just don't seem to get that faint detail
into view without overly harsh processing.

~john