M13-my first attempt

[gary1968]

Here is my 1st attempt at M13. I am not really one for imaging star clusters but as its that time of year I thought I'd give it a go.

This is the first process, which I am not completely happy with as I dont seem to have a great deal of star colour, another go at processing me thinks.....

Anyway, C&C welcome as usual peeps.

Gary

[blinky]

Looking cracking to me mate - I would drop the red a little in the sky background. To get more colour, try doing a select, colour range, select highlights, then go image, adjustments, vibrance and mess about with the sliders.

Nice image though, I think your collimation is a bit better than mine, and certainly easier to set!

[gary1968]

Thanks Craig, due to the clouds tonight I have no new data to process so this is going to get revisited.......#

Gaz

[dc509]

Very nice image

d

[Deneb]

It's a super M13, with nice processing.

Nadeem.

[Catanonia]

Excellent work and as said the colour balance is off. Time to play with the colour sliders in vibrance and saturation to bring it out.

Have a look at Noels actions LP correction or best still, PixInsight colour calibration on the free trail download.

[roundycat]

Alternatively, just get to grips with some subtle Curves adjustments, gradient quick mask for gradient removal and a slight saturation increase. Nice and sharp.

Dennis

[gary1968]

Cheers for the kind words folks.

Thanks for tinkering with it Dennis, it looks much better now......... :-) The sky has better colour and the stars are show colour more.... cheers

Gary