Small m27.

[paul mc c]

My take in the dumbell,prob around 3 hours with c80ed and modded 450d.I will hopefully add to it if the weather is kind.

[bobro]

Nice image with round stars, though it looks like the black has been clipped as the background is very black, resulting in a loss of some faint detail. 

The attached quick process of your image (hope you don't mind) with some stretching and saturation increase starts to show some of the potential detail. Perhaps you could have another go at processing to bring out more detail, keeping the background not so black?

 

[paul mc c]

52 minutes ago, bobro said:

Nice image with round stars, though it looks like the black has been clipped as the background is very black, resulting in a loss of some faint detail. 

The attached quick process of your image (hope you don't mind) with some stretching and saturation increase starts to show some of the potential detail. Perhaps you could have another go at processing to bring out more detail, keeping the background not so black?

 

Thats brilliant.....my processing skills are not good,and after having a nightmare with PI,i am only using gimp,that looks great.

[bobro]

2 hours ago, paul mc c said:

i am only using gimp

Me too! I tried Startools but got a bit lost.....