M35 : Open Clusters deserve some love too

[MattJenko]

M35. Large open cluster in Gemini.

47 x 120 secs. No Darks, so some hot pixels for those who spot those kinds of things. PI processing.

[ghostdance]

Agreed, open clusters are gorgeous, a real spinetingly treat.

And your M35 is lovely, colourful and crunchy. I especially like that little cluster just close by. I've never set my scope much to Gemini apart from Castor & Pollux so thanks, I will book some time with M35.

[kalasinman]

Good star color and yes, the little cluster above is a beauty.

[Leveye]

Wonderful work sir.

[celestron8g8]

Great cluster there and you also caught a small one too .

[cuivenion]

Great picture, M35 is one of my favourite DSO's that I've found so far.

[FranckiM06]

It is very nice image with nice colour. I have done the same image in January and I got the same result.

Franck

[PhotoGav]

What do they say? "Variety is the spice of life". It's lovely to see something different appear and while an open cluster is hardly massively different, they don't get imaged that much really, do they?! You have done this one great justice. As others have mentioned, the baby cluster just above is intriguing. I will be adding this area of sky to my 'To Do' list. As for hot pixels, they are just more stars aren't they?!!?

[jeremile]

Hello,

Very cool image with thin stars and good colors.

Well done

[Sleepy Kiki]

Thats really nice, great colours in there!

[Macavity]

Open Clusters deserve some love too

Absolutely! And a nice bit of framing there.

[laudropb]

Lovely image. I will have a look for it tonight, clouds permitting.

[MattJenko]

Learning new things all the time. Great deconvolution tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97OyeSR76Fs and just more practice means revisiting old data and images seems to be an endless seam of image treasure.

[ollypenrice]

Often the hardest parts of an image to get right are the background sky and the stars, which suggests that clusters might not be dead easy!

In the first one you've got both looking very nice. In the second, things have turned green, the sky has lost its flatness and the stars are over sharpened to my eye (but I never sharpen stars anyway.) In fact I rarely, if ever, use deconvolution at all. In a nutshell I much prefer the first.

Olly

[MattJenko]

The old adage of less is more then!!

Difficult skill to master when you are getting all excited in learning about new techniques, I guess it is all about knowing the processes and also knowing when to use them. I will have another go and reign in my learners enthusiasm for all things new and crispening.

Thanks - appreciated.