m5

[alacant]

Through last night's Mediterranean haze, this came as a pleasant surprise. Considering it's size, I wonder why it's not snapped more often. Google has such a mix of colour images, it's hard to decide what is right. Thanks for looking and any comments most welcome. Clear skies...

700d: 60 minutes, 2 layers

 

[xtreemchaos]

my fav cluster, well done, think colour is just how you like it, M5 is so impressive it looks amazing in mono. charl.

[MARS1960]

Nice capture, maybe a little too blue on my monitor but a great result regardless.

[Astrosurf]

Lovely job. I should really image more of these!

[Craney]

Nice.     I'm guessing the star colours give away their age  and /or size.     Oh for Mediterranean skies....

[alacant]

19 hours ago, MARS1960 said:

a little too blue

Yeah, It always looks different on the SGL server than on the ground. Do we have a grey scale for the site? I'm hopeless with colour balance anyway. Here's a snip of the tif, the jpg and Chrome. Can anyone see a difference?

[alacant]

16 hours ago, Craney said:

star colours give away their age  and /or size

Hi. I think the orange stars are older, cooler and bigger.

 

20 hours ago, xtreemchaos said:

it looks amazing in mono

I had a go, but can't get the contrast right. This looks too harsh to me, but any softer and the core stars merge. It's never simple, is it...

 

[MARS1960]

Simple it isn't, it's one of the hardest things i have ever tried to learn. 

You've done a great job, it's more than likely just my monitors colour calibration so i wouldn't worry about or go changing it, i like it.

[Gerry Casa Christiana]

Very well done shot! I'm always doing nebulas but you've tempted me to have a go at that. Very nice. I always find colouring a problem. It seems only my iPad can get the colours right. My laptop! Well I've got more chance of landing on the moon sitting on a washing machine  

[alacant]

31 minutes ago, MARS1960 said:

it's one of the hardest things i have ever tried to learn

+1. I'd add that I think it's almost impossible to do alone. You need someone else who hasn't been working on it to come along and tell you if there's a cast or predominance; at the very least you need a reference alongside on the same screen from before you started adjusting the curves -or however you do it...

[alacant]

7 minutes ago, Gerry Casa Christiana said:

I've got more chance of landing on the moon

If you have a wife/gf/mistress, they're much better at colour balance. There's an advantage and disadvantage there too, but it just slipped my mind...

[Gerry Casa Christiana]

Very well done shot! I'm always doing nebulas but you've tempted me to have a go at that. Very nice. I always find colouring a problem. It seems only my iPad can get the colours right. My laptop! Well I've got more chance of landing on the moon sitting on a washing machine  

4 hours ago, alacant said:

If you have a wife/gf/mistress, they're much better at colour balance. There's an advantage and disadvantage there too, but it just slipped my mind...

Well I don't know about using the wife I'm sure it will look a lot more pretty by the time they photoshop a bunch of flowers next to the tulip nebula