M7

[Paulyman]

I imaged this one last month during new moon at a much darker site than home. Three hours of 3 minute subs with the WO Star 71 at iso800 using the unmodded 550D. I had no idea this area was so beautiful until the first image came through on SGP.

[Startrek]

Paul
Lovely wide field of M7
Breathtaking star field a real eye opener
Well done !

[Paulyman]

Thanks Martin. I don’t like the stars in my image (in M7 that’s is), I had to fiddle to get them to show their true colours, maybe over saturated. Your colour is much better. If the two were combined it would be a winner I think.

[Startrek]

Paul
Yes it would be nice to combine the best from our images but we image at vastly different image scales
My 6” f6 with the 600D is 0.98 arc sec / pixel ( slightly oversampled )
Your WO Star 71 with 550D is 2.55 arc sec / pixel (under sampled )
I don’t know if you “Drizzle” in your processing which should improve your SNR and star pixel density for better resolution and colour ?
Cheers

[Paulyman]

I usually drizzle. But this image was done with our club helping out a uni course. With 300 odd students wandering past the mount regularly I couldn’t dither, it was hard enough keeping the guiding decent as it was, so no point using drizzle on this one.

[Ant0nio]

Spectacular widefield Paul, well done.
Tony

[Saturnine]

Think I've seen that image somewhere else Paul, still a lovely field non the less. The long exposure time, bringing out the background star field almost overwhelms poor old M 7 but shows just how much is waiting to be seen.

[Paulyman]

You have indeed Jeff. I agree about the background, it was extremely hard to try and balance the background field with M7, I don't think I fully succeeded but it is quite a nice field none the less.

[ChrisV]

That looks stunning!

[Paulyman]

Thanks Chris.

[LostInSp_ce]

Wow! This looks amazing Paul congrats on a fine image. :thumbsup: