M13

[blinky]

I was hunting for M51 but gave up as I was getting a sore neck Anyway I went on a little whiz around the sky and happened to find M13 Got everything all centered and focussed, set the camera for 1 minute exposures and....nothing Could not get the lobng exposure function to work at all. Then after 40 mins of mucking about, resetting this, unplugging that, I remembered that I had sort of tripped over one of the cables! 2 mins later and I had unscrewed the remote shutter plug and found the cable had snapped of :x at least I had an explanation of the problem.

All of the above is an explanation of why this is only 30second exposures, wish I could have gone to a minute or 2 as I had spent an hour getting my polar alignment bang on but hey ho!

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[legion48]

It's still a lovely catch mate, despite the problems. I can't wait till I get to have a go at some globs.

[zhgutas]

I understand your anger on that, but it's not a bad shot at all! as always, can't do it myself, so play with other people's work.. hope you don't mind. again I might have overdone it a bit though :insects1: ..

Marius

(click to enlarge Blinky's M13)

[blinky]

you pulled a hell of a lot more stars out of that! Was it just a curves adjustment?

[zhgutas]

Mainly curves. Replaced colour on couple of spots as well, to smooth up the background after playing with curves. A little bit of hue-saturation for the same reason. In general, it is easy job those curves, for people who know what they're doing. Well I use Ctrl+Z a hell of a lot

Marius

[CELESCOPE]

Nice one Craig,always a fav of mine , and Marius ,has pulled out some valuable data in that one as well .

Rog

[dogfish]

Wow Craig - looks great, especially after Marius played with it. I've now got myself an LX modded webcam so I'm going to be pestering you next time we meet up.

Cheers, Martin

[Ant]

I'm loving it! excellent shot!

Ant

[Sam]

Excellent M13 Craig!

[RobH]

Great Globulars!

A fine shot

Cheers

Rob

[gary1968]

Great shot Craig, and after Marius played around with it there is so much detail there. Just shows that there is alot of detail in pics that can be brought out by use of software.

Gary

[brendant]

Nice pic Craig, good image to start with, you can only pull out the data if it is in there in the first place. Beautiful re-process Marius on the image. Great work both of you.

Brendan

[blinky]

Just having another play with this image. Nothing better to do! To bloomin light now!!!

Anyway you think it's better?

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[The Warthog]

Frankly, I think the first image was better. Good catch, eh?