Ngc 3532

[Rigel003]

After a long night of battling clouds, trying not very successfully to get RGB data of another object, I dashed this off just as dawn was lightening the sky (and the clouds were clearing - wouldn't you know). Only time for three short subs of L and one each of RGB, the last ones taken in a bright sky, so it's amazing anything came of it.

It's a lovely field so I'll try to do it properly later. The magenta patch at top is from the outskirts of eta carinae.
Bigger version here (http://www.pbase.com/rigel003/image/141033975/original)

Takahashi TSA-120 with reducer
FLI Microline 8300
LRGB: 15, 5, 5, 5

[TheDecepticon]

One of my favorite visual objects. Great job!!:thumbsup:

[rogerg]

That's a nice image, I like the millions of stars you've brought out and the star colour. The slight diffusion of the stars helps.

[renormalised]

Nice piccie, Graeme:)

It looks good just as it is. I sometimes get the impression that people labour under the premise that in order to get a great astropic, you need to take reams of subs for hours long sessions in order to achieve anything good. For many subjects that's not needed, especially stars. You can only bring out so much detail and colour before all those subs are nothing more than just a waste of effort. You can only collect so much data....if you wanted, you could collect 50 hours worth of subs, but they'd look no better than what you've got there. At least that's my opinion:):).

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Graeme. I like the colours there too.

[cventer]

Very nice. A very pretty cluster I have not seen much of

Were those single 5 min RGB subs and 1 x 15 min Lum sub ?

[Rigel003]

Thanks for the comments everyone.



Chris, the colour subs were only one five minute each 2x2. Luminance was three unbinned 5 minute subs, the last one in a very light sky. There was a price to pay for such short exposure time. If you examine the fine detail of the 100% version it's pretty scary. Fortunately for this bright object and at this image scale it's worked pretty well.

[Rigel003]

There's something in this Carl. I spent the whole night gathering data for a faint fuzzy and then knocked this off in 30 mins. Astrophotographers can be an anal lot though and you definitely need the long exposures to get rid of noise when you're doing extreme stretching.

[Lester]

Very nice view Graeme, thanks.

[Ross G]

Great photo Graeme.

So sharp and beautiful, rich colours.

Ross.

[strongmanmike]

Another great shot Graeme, you're getting good at this :thumbsup:

Mike

[marc4darkskies]

Cluster shots don't usually get my juices flowing but this one's a beauty Graeme! Beautiful rich star colour with just the right amount of halo and a hint of neb. Very nice image indeed!

Cheers, Marcus

[TrevorW]

For so little data per channel the amount of detail captured is amazing was this taken at a dark site or its it just the FLI

[mill]

For that amount of data it is a good shot.

[trent_julie]

Your image shows a nice depth of detail, what a pretty little object, you have imaged it deservingly.

Trent

[Rigel003]

Thanks for the comments everyone.



Trevor, it was a dark sky site, but it was so far into twilight that I'm not sure the lack of light pollution was an issue.

[multiweb]

Really nice field. The stars and colors are very nice indeed. Beautifully processed. Nice and smooth. :thumbsup:

[prokyon]

Very, very nice! A wonderful pic. Stars, colors, details... everything perfect!

[RickC]

I like the jewel like quality and colours of the stars in this image
really well done

Richard