M13 your thoughts please

[Leveye]

10 420 second lights 4 darks 20 bias stacked in DSS and tweeked in PS5 and LR4 your thoughts please.

[farunj]

That's a wonderful image! Wow! Really amazing! Love the star colour!

[MikeD]

Very nice , deep and well resolved, congrats .

It just needs more data to bring the background noise down a touch.

Mike.

[Richie092]

I think it's great Chris. Really like the stars too.

[mitchelln]

Really nice image

[Amra]

I think it looks gorgeous!

[cfpendock]

Nice stars - colours and sharpness.

Chris

[Leveye]

Very nice , deep and well resolved, congrats .

It just needs more data to bring the background noise down a touch.

Mike with this 60D's iso performance i'm not sure how to rid the images of the blockiness i see without some real image NR trickery this was 70 minutes of lights think more darks are needed? I will take your suggestion thank you.

[Leveye]

Thanks for looking everyone much appreciated!

[SnakeyJ]

Beautiful image and nice to see a wider field and such great star colour. What great dark skies you have.

[Leveye]

Many thanks SnakeyJ I'm very lucky to be able to get these images i'm in my backyard behind the house and have 2 very bright sodium street lamps on either side in the front with the house just barely blocking them which at this almost straight up latitude and focal length of my scope makes it not show up in the image much even with 10 minute exposures i do use a gradient filter on them highly recommended.

[MikeD]

Mike with this 60D's iso performance i'm not sure how to rid the images of the blockiness i see without some real image NR trickery this was 70 minutes of lights think more darks are needed? I will take your suggestion thank you.

I would say more darks would definitely help with the noise but 70 mins is not a long time for a DSO image.

I am happy to put well over 10 hours into a DSO image(mono CCD), not that I am suggesting M13 needs that long but 3-4 hours is not unreasonable for a DSLR image.

Next clear spell shoot another 70 mins to go with the 70 you have in the bag, stack the lot and see the difference.

You will find the one common factor in the cream of DSO images posted on SGL is the time put in at the scope.

Hope that helps.

Mike.

[MattGoo]

Very nice, I'd certainly be proud of that image. Some good feedback as well on how to make it even better.

[robbie c]

That's a cracking image well done

[Leveye]

Thanks for the advice everyone love this site you are all the best!

[Twisted Lip]

Looks great, I think I definitely need to move to Oregon!

[Leveye]

I sure could not see this stuff till i did!

[Superdavo]

My thoughts are that that's amazing!

[faulksy]

very good fella, such I bright core as well fabulous

[watersblue]

Love it!

[WaveSoarer]

Very nice indeed.

[poogle]

Impressive results with an interesting mount!

I read somewhere that it is possible to adjust the latitude of your mount up to 60 degrees, can you confirm this? That would suck for me living at 59° 20'

/Patrik

[Leveye]

Impressive results with an interesting mount!

I read somewhere that it is possible to adjust the latitude of your mount up to 60 degrees, can you confirm this? That would suck for me living at 59° 20'

/Patrik

You mean my ZEQ26GT? It comes set up at 35-60 and is shipped with a short Lat adj knob also for low alt 0-35 it is amazing highly recommended!

[Leveye]

That should read ZEQ25GT sorry

[peroni]

Looks great. you've made me want to go out and find a globular cluster for pics as well.

Good job.