47 Tucanae ( NGC104 )

[Startrek]

Captured 47 Tucanae ( NGC104 ) again on Sunday night under a 95% Waning moon
This time with more shorter subs and included flats
68 x 60 sec dithered guided subs
20 x darks
30 x flats
6” f6 Bintel GSO newt
Canon 600D with Baader coma corrector
Dithered every 3rd sub
PHD2 at 1.20 to 1.40 arc sec error
EQMOD and Stellarium
BYEOS
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools

Thanks for looking , comments welcome

[casstony]

You're doing well Martin. Interesting how we seem to focus on certain types of objects for a while - I haven't done glob's or galaxies for ages (smc excepted).

[Startrek]

Thanks Tony appreciate it
When the moons +60% I only image clusters in Bortle 8 Sydney skies
I don’t use filters so Nebulas and galaxies have to wait for the dark
Down at my dark site ( Bortle 3/4 ) I image everything with my 8” newt , moon or no moon
Going down in a weeks time ( hopefully)

[mynameiscd]

Great image of this cluster. Love the star colours. The 6 inch is such a good all-rounder. You should get some good images next week up at your dark site away from the Sydney glow.
Cheers
Andy

[Fernando]

Really beautiful!!!

[Startrek]

Thanks for the kind comment Fernando
Martin

[LostInSp_ce]

Beautiful work Martin. The star colour is amazing considering that is was imaged during a full moon. :thumbsup:

[Startrek]

Thanks Lost in Space
I think doing all the little things right eventually shows up in your images
I’m pretty anal with clean mirrors, collimation, DSLR placement in focuser ( I use some Teflon tape to reduce the slop before tightening up the thumb screws), levelling Mount , mount balancing , framing and focus ( I don’t just rely on FWHM , I take multiple 30 second test exposures zoomed on a small star in the target field and get the tightest visual focus I can before imaging )
My processing software Startools does a great job, I’ve been using it for 18 months and still learning. It may not be that popular but I enjoy the results and it’s particularly good at reducing or eliminating gradients and noise etc

Thanks again