M13 Great Cluster in Hercules 2011 (deep)

[Tim]

Soon comes around doesn't it?

I like to have a session on M13 once a year. Last time I went for 10 minute subs to try and bring out the fainter stars amongst the cluster. This year I have plumped for 20 and 30 minutes, which is against conventional wisdom on bright targets I guess, but it has enabled the camera to capture a large number of tiny fuzzies both amongst the cluster itself and in the surrounding area. I dont think the version hosted on SGL will have them, but please see this <FULL SIZE VERSION> for the finer details.

Scope used is Skywatcher MN190, along with a QHY8 OSC camera. Total exposure around 8 hours or so.

Thanks for looking

Tim

[Fenriz]

Wow that is amazing, so much detail in the core.

[callisto]

Very nice indeed

[Paxo]

Nice one TJ, even the propellor is prominant.

Steve..

[ollypenrice]

Tim, you really are on form!! Or do you have some demon scope drug? Those stars are tiny and rich in colour. That is one seriously classy image and I really don't know how you did it. Today I said on another thread that I had never seen a world class image from a QHY8. I take it back with humble apologies!

Marvellous image. Marvellous.

Olly

[peter shah]

wow crisp as a crispy thing....stunning TJ top stuff

[steppenwolf]

This really is quite an amazing image, Tim - absolutely stunning.

[adamsp123]

Stone the crows that is darn nice, super clean tight stars.

[JCJC]

Beat me to it Tim! I'm going to try something similar, albeit with a smaller scope...

Super image!

Jordan

[barkis]

This is simply outstanding TJ. Globs. are high on my list of favourite objects. This is an APOD in waiting in my book. I don't know if showing it elsewhere disqualifies it as a candidate though.:icon_salut:

Ron.

[Uranium235]

Best M13 ive seen so far i think another winner for the MN190

[blinky]

Amazing image, easily the best M13 I have seen!

I'm surprised you got 30min exposures and still retained star colour - I thought it would have saturated the CCD by then?

Still, I will say it again - AMAZING IMAGE

[Tim]

Thanks Craig. I did take some 60s and 30s subs for the star colour, but never used them. At SGL5 Peter (Shah) was kind enough to demonstrate his curve technique which avoids taking away the colour, and of course Noel's tools have the action to take the colour from the edge of the star and apply it to the whole, which helps a lot!

[GazOC]

Stunning TJ!

[Deneb]

Gob Smacked are the Words I can describe it ! It's made it onto my desktop wallpaper..

Nadeem.

[ashworthacca]

Love the star colours and the faint fuzzies really add to the overall image. Amazing.

[Magnum]

Fantastic, im loving the different colour stars.

Lee

[jwr]

That's a superb image - such rich star colour.

James.

[cloudbuster]

Nice one Tim....those long hours have really paid off....probably the best m13 that i have yet seen!

cheers

bob

[ollypenrice]

The thing is that you have so many more red stars than usual and this sits far better with the HR diagrams of M13 than the mostly-blue images we usually see.

Olly

[MikeWilson]

Tim,

This is an amazing job of M13. I loved your previous M13 and this one edges it even further.

Really thinking hard about the QHY8 now...

Best,

Mike

[prokyon]

Full size is a stunner! Colours are great.

Cheers

Werner

[Tim]

Get the Starlight Version Mike, it's more expensive, but worth it

Tim,

This is an amazing job of M13. I loved your previous M13 and this one edges it even further.

Really thinking hard about the QHY8 now...

Best,

Mike

[Psychobilly]

8 hours well spent a truly splendid image

[shaunster]

POW two weeks running?? Id say so...