M44 - Beehive Cluster - Disappointment

[RolandKol]

So after flocking my 130PDS and after a prolonged collimation battle of the secondary, adjusting DIY autofocuser, balancing piggyback cannon, adjusting OAG and etc

The season started to end.
My De-focused star test looked more or less OK, so I decided to find a larger star field to test the field flatness of my Mono setup... 7 Sisters and the Milky Way were hiding in the trees and etc, 

So I simply chose M44 as it was not Far Away from the Meridian and would not hide soon... 

Expected a bit more stars from a total 3 hour LRGB integration  not like "Omega Centauri", but anyway

Disappointed...

Someday, maybe I will try to pre-stretch the smaller stars using the star mask...

 

And yes, It looks like I still have some spacing problems... + 1mm probably will help to flatten it a bit more

It never ends!

 

 

[haxoo]

I don't think the three hours were wasted...it's a great photo!

[smr]

I really like it. I'd be happy with it. 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice image with good star colours. I wouldn't expect anything more from M44. It just isn't a hugely rich star cluster

[Ronclarke]

I agree with the above's! Great image, don't put yourself down!! 

[alan potts]

You sound like me, own worse critic, this is the nicest capture of this target I have seen,well done.

[vlaiv]

I like the image.

Checking out "reference" images on internet - that is pretty much it. Maybe you got framing slightly "wrong" (if there is such thing) - there is a part of cluster "above" and "to the left" that is not shown in your image - but I figured that out only by comparison to "reference" images - I could not tell that just by looking at the image - composition is nice as is.

[RolandKol]

Thanks for support and compliments.

My main disappointment, - was the lack of stars in a Globular Cluster, never imaged them before!  and the image looks... poor... empty...

Probably I simply saw too many images of the Omega Centauri

I did my best to get from it something
I am glad at least you guys like it.

1mm spacer to add and one more Cluster to image to check the spacing  and it looks like there are No SE or South star-rich areas at the moment

Like always

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

1 hour ago, RolandKol said:

Thanks for support and compliments.

My main disappointment, - was the lack of stars in a Globular Cluster, never imaged them before!  and the image looks... poor... empty...

Probably I simply saw too many images of the Omega Centauri

I did my best to get from it something
I am glad at least you guys like it.

1mm spacer to add and one more Cluster to image to check the spacing  and it looks like there are No SE or South star-rich areas at the moment

Like always

But the Beehive is an open clusters, not a globular.

[RolandKol]

Noted

[Brian28]

You sound like me , as someone has already said ," your own worse critic." ..  however . It really is a nice shot ..  

and like most of these things we can always go back to it at a later date and gather some more data that you can process with and without the data you already have . 

Anyway nice image .. ?

[PeterCPC]

Looks good to me. My recent effort on M44 was much worse than this - lacking colour - so don't put yourself down.

Peter

 

[Scooot]

It’s a wonderful image.