First attempt at Omega Centauri

[Irish stargazer]

This is my first time imaging this amazing object. It consists of 16 x 1 minute frames through a C11 at F6.3 and a Canon 450D. Minimal processing used (levels only) whch is about the extent of my processing knowledge.

[TrevorW]

Well you've captured a nice image now all you need is the colour

also try for a varity of exposures with this target

Cheers

[FlashDrive]

That's nice John.. :thumbsup:

[Irish stargazer]

Thanks guys.
Interestingly, the camera does not pick up any colour on this object so it appears in B&W almost - pretty much how you would see it at the eyepiece through a decent dob. It may need LRGB imaging to pick out the subtle yellow stars. Anyone any experience with dslr imaging of this object?

[TrevorW]

John

the colour is there you've just need to process it correctly, if you have a look at the histogram in PS you'll see it's really far to the left which is refered too a clipping the black point, you should be aiming to balance the RGB in levels, curves etc so you have a nice bell shaped curve in PS histogram.

A lot of articles on the web about processing DSLR images

one of my first sources was

Jim Solomons Cookbook

http://www.saratogaskies.com/articles/cookbook/index.html

it might be helpful

also colour enhancement comes from a modified DSLR