M13 - Round Two

[mightymonoped]

Fresh off the press from last night, my second attempt at this puppy.

This time, without the focal reducer, and with planning, a few more subs before bedtime!

10 x 30s

10 x 60s

10 x 120s

DDP in Maxim at 90%

3 pixel Motion Blur adjustment in FocusMagic at 50%

Gradients, star size and saturation in CS2

SW ED80 + Canon EOS 450d on NEQ6

Tony

[Gina]

Good image especially with a fairly short total imaging time. Can see the propeller

[mightymonoped]

Thanks Gina,

Looking at this more closely, it looks as if my poor alignment has caused some trailing in the longer exposures. Not much I can really do about that without impact on the star shapes, but I've had a go. Tried to sharpen up the trailing and get a little better resolution towards the core. Still got some dark spots in the centre of some of the stars though (suspect this may be processing using DDP in Maxim, but haven't tested this yet).

Anyway, next time will be properly aligned!

Tony

[Gina]

Yes that's better - sharpened it up a bit