M13 - a nice little ball of stars!

[Sam]

Here's M13 from 22 exposures at 30secs each unguided stacked in DSS and tweaked in Gimp Just to the left is a faint NGC 6207. It's been a few weeks since I've done any DSO imaging so I am quite happy how it turned out - I kept getting star trails above 30secs, hence the relatively short exposures.

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Sam

[LostNSpace]

Thats a nice M13 Sam......star trails above 30secs, that sounds familiar .....I dont think it matters how short the exposures are when the results are good though.......

Mark

[Jarvo]

This image is beautiful Sam - What kit did you use??

Jarvo

[Sam]

I used my Orion XT8 (8" Newt) on an HEQ5 with a Canon 400D DSLR.

[zhgutas]

Nice snowball Sam! and that NGC 6207 came out quite well too. Much brighter than usual. Lovely pic

Marius

[steppenwolf]

Excellent result for such short exposures - just goes to show doesn't it?

[MikeD]

Nice and deep and it has a nice natural look , a well processed image.

Mike.

[MartinB]

That's a beauty Sam, all nicely resolved. Any trailing destroys globs so good move to restrict exposure times

[themos]

That looks good. Can you post one of your subs so that I can see the difference please?

[Sam]

That looks good. Can you post one of your subs so that I can see the difference please?

here you go:

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Sam

[CELESCOPE]

imaged and processed nicely Sam very good result

Rog

[themos]

thanks! you posted this sub of 800x533, is that what you shot or did ukastronomers.com change the dimensions? sorry for the questions but I am contemplating my first foray into long exposure + darks...

[saturn5]

Thats how to do M13 alright,excellent image.

[Sam]

thanks! you posted this sub of 800x533, is that what you shot or did ukastronomers.com change the dimensions? sorry for the questions but I am contemplating my first foray into long exposure + darks...

Nah mate the original was 3888 X 2596 (or so) about 10Mb I just shrunk it so it wouldn't take forever to load. I took all of the subs at that size in Raw then convert them to 16bit tiffs for processing. Hope that helps - no probs with the questions - fire away!

[themos]

Thanks! I am planning on doing some afocal shots of globs, I don't have a DSLR. But I can shoot in RAW and up to 64 seconds so it sounds doable. I don't see any amp glow on your sub at all, very clean and smooth.

[barkis]

An excellent outcome Sam. No need to do this one again

As good as it gets mate.

Ron.

[Beyond_Vision]

Excellent Capture Sam with the core resolved very well.

Regards

Kevin