Double cluster on Xmas day

[madjohn]

Shot this last night.

17 X 5 min subs IsO 800.

Quick n dirty process this morning, Orion ED 80 WO 0.8 FR, modded Canon 450D.

John

[barkis]

Not a bad result from your quick and dirty process though John

I never tire of looking at the DC. It's a popular target, and this is a fine example of it. Time well spent.

Ron.

[madjohn]

Thanks Barkis, I never tire of looking at the double too, its like the seven sisters or M42, I never tire of looking or imaging them!

I was trying out a new light pollution filter (2") from Skywatcher as i always have trouble getting the colours right using my EOS clip filter from Baader, I'm very pleased with the result, hardly any gradient at all apart from the bright moonlight which was no problem to remove.

We really have had dire skies for about two months now here in Sussex, so although it was Xmas day evening, when I saw that the skies were clear I had to do some imaging even though it was about -6 and I was half cut!

The double cluster was the sensible target, always good to see the colours of the red stars in the image come out.

[R Fisher]

Nice image,

I find that this is one of the few objects where the eyepiece view is usually better than an image. Its difficult get the pin point stars without loosing the dim ones.

Have got the colour and kept star bloat down in this one.

Cheers

[Catanonia]

Nice image there mate and well done for getting out.

I wasn't allowed to image

[Keiran]

great shot, 5 min subs, with all that moon up there too.... great shot, nice xmas prezzy

[chrisp]

really nice. are those star colours true?

[madjohn]

Hi Chris, yes the colours are true, I was careful not to do anything to the background and only lightly used the saturation tool to bring the starcolour through.