Beehive Cluster

Took some short exposure images last night. Monitor in observatory went snap, crackle and pop, and so have no monitor. On the lookout for one at the mo. Therefore, I limited my exposures to 30 seconds

Canon 300d; Pentax 75 SDHF refractor; 29 x 30sec exposures; ISO400



Regards,

Is that cropped? If not, that's one heck of a flat field you have

Did you DDP it?

Dave

Cropped, DDP'd, curves and levels adjusted.

FWIW, here's a crop from the corner of the frame. As you can see is fairly flat.


Cheers,

Michael,

Don't know how I missed this image before now. As Dave says. You've certainly technically very good. I suppose on the slight downside there is not a very great dynamic range in the colour channels. Mybe thats just M44s fault! I suppose slightly longer exposures would sort that out.

BTW I have a couple of spare CRT monitors 17", if you need one, your welcome one. They're only cluttering my attic!

Michael,

Don't know how I missed this image before now. As Dave says. You've certainly technically very good. I suppose on the slight downside there is not a very great dynamic range in the colour channels. Mybe thats just M44s fault! I suppose slightly longer exposures would sort that out.

BTW I have a couple of spare CRT monitors 17", if you need one, your welcome one. They're only cluttering my attic!

The issue for me at this stage is trying to return the very red-dominated frame to a more colour balanced image. With a short exposure, the red channel has a great signal, but blue and green are very very weak.

Having said that, I've a feeling the colour issue is more down to the operator than the cluster!

Regards,

it's still a very good image well done mr o c