M5, the "Rose" cluster

[DaveS]

Well at least that's what Stellarium calls it.

This is 6 hours of data collected in two 3 hours of 5 min sub spells on the 14th and 15th 130 triplet apo, encoder guided on DDM60 pro. Red split into two 30 min spells at the beginning and end of the sequence.

Synthetic Luminance created from the total RGB data, given DDP and Histogram Stretch before just enough Unsharp mask to define the stars, Individual RGB stacks into Trichromy before DDP and Histogram Stretch to pull out the faint stars while holding back the core. LRGB synthesis, crop and gradient removal before colour balance.

I think I won't be getting more data, but it won't be the end of the processing.

I think I may have clipped the Black Point in trying to hold back the core, and lost some of the faint fuzzies in the background.

[bob-c]

A nice image Dave.

Bob.

[geoflewis]

It's a lovely M5 Dave, well done.

[DaveS]

Thanks for the vote of confidence guys.

[RayD]

Really good, looks great on full res.