M3 1st April

[MartinB]

This was a bit of a muddle really. There is a nice bright Mag 6.5 star near M3 but I just couldn't find it. So I ended up with a woefully inadequate faint speck which was pretty useless for active optics guiding. I have now sorted out in my head how I should have gone about finding the thing.

I finally decided to put the image together tonight and it has come out a bit better than I thought it would. If I'd found that guide star I would have had a guide cycle of >10 per sec. Will have another go asap

10" LX200ACF SXVAO and QSI532

L with CLS filter 6x150 secs

R+G each 6x170

B 6x200

All unbinned

Captured and combined in maxim and processed in PS

[Beyond_Vision]

Beautifully resolved, and really nice and tight stars with very natural colour

Great job Martin

Regards

Kevin

[MartinB]

Thanks Kevin.

Here it is sharpened up a little

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely glob Martin. got that just right, make a change doing something different eh,

Rog:)

[omneferuss]

Beautiful! They really are 'gems' aren't they!

[steppenwolf]

I really like the colours on this one, Martin and very nicely resolved too.

[glennbech]

Resolved came to my mind too. well done!

[gary1968]

That is very nice Martin, grewat colours and resolved to the core.

Gary

[Trevor N]

Very nice image Martin . Colours are spot on too, Trevor