blinky Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 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!(click to enlarge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legion48 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 It's still a lovely catch mate, despite the problems. I can't wait till I get to have a go at some globs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhgutas Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinky Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 you pulled a hell of a lot more stars out of that! Was it just a curves adjustment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhgutas Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CELESCOPE Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Nice one Craig,always a fav of mine , and Marius ,has pulled out some valuable data in that one as well .Rog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogfish Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I'm loving it! excellent shot!Ant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Excellent M13 Craig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobH Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Great Globulars!A fine shot CheersRob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary1968 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brendant Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinky Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Just having another play with this image. Nothing better to do! To bloomin light now!!!Anyway you think it's better?(click to enlarge) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Warthog Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Frankly, I think the first image was better. Good catch, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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