M12

[MrEd]

Hi All

Clear at last down here,

After capturing some flats i decided to grab a quick DSO.

Image info

8" SCT and Orion Starshoot @ f5

50 x20 sec subs unguided (only 30 used)

I know its only a short exposure (and not quite up to some Globs here)

but i thought i would still post as its not imaged often.

Regards

Ed Sampson

[Trevor]

nice one Ed.

[centroid]

Hi Ed

You do yourself an injustice!!

That's actually quite a nice result, and certainly worth 'posting'.

There was actually a bit more to be 'teased out' of your image, so I took the liberty of having a 'tweak', albeit re-saving a well compressed jpeg as another well compressed jpeg, doesn't help.

Attached is your original image and the 'tweaked' below it.

Dave

[SteelRat]

Good stuff Ed 8)

[barkis]

M12 does not seem to be imaged as often as it should IMHO. I think you may have sent a message here Ed, And maybe we will see it targeted more. You made a valiant attempt here, and when I compare it with the image in my Messier Album which was imaged with a 4" refractor,

the book shot, shows a denser core, and more stars in the outer regions. Of course your exposure was a lot shorter.

Dave's tweak has brightened the image quite a bit.

I regard globulars among my favourite objects, and I love seeing them posted on SGL.

Ron.

[mpeniak]

Great shot Ed and you tweaked it nicely Dave...looks much better now

Martin