Omega Centauri

[Astroman]

Gave Omega Centauri another shot tonight, before turning the scope to Comet 29P/S-W.

Omega Centauri from lastnight. 15 x 60sec, 15 x 240sec, 15 x 300sec. ISO800. Canon 1100D, GSO8" f/4

Larger image: http://www.astrobin.com/full/82446/0/

[Astro_Bot]

That's quite a good one. I can see colours in some stars, but you have the bright white centre, too. Did you use a star mask during processing?

[Astroman]

Yeah I used a mask, but I didn't notice any burnt out cores. This was through light pollution with an Astronomik CLS filter, so I am happy what colours did come through, I did saturate the stars more but I was getting a red ring around the stars for some reason, so I did desaturate a little. Also I may have burnt the cores when I did a final Curves to darken the background a little, but may have pushed the star brightness too much... Thanks for the input .

[Rigel003]

Very nice Andrew. Thanks goodness that you can still get good shots of some objects from the suburbs.

[Astroman]

one of the reasons i'd like to go narrow band one day. But it has taken a little while to learn how to process the Astronomik CLS filters colouring, out of the image. Thanks Graeme.