Omega Centauri

[Dr. Washington]

Hi all,

I'm new to Astrophotography, bought my setup approximately 8 months ago and have being learning alot through all the mistakes I've made :P Last night I realised what a huge difference good balance has on tracking, and I produced the attached image of Omega Centauri with some quick exposures. I'm still learning the photo editing side of this, so please feel free to give tips :)

Exposure was 22x 60sec at ISO 600, no darks or flats so there is a quite bit of noise (this was more of a test photo).

[Jeffkop]

Nicely resolved Daniel .. Certainly heading in the right direction thats for sure.

[DJT]

Very nicely done. Not that clever at processing globular clusters myself so no tips from me other than there should be some colour tucked away in those stars. Have a shufftie at the inter web which gives you an idea of the colours that are tucked away in there

[Sarge]

Very nice for a "test" photo. Clear with great colour.
Thumbs up from me Daniel.
:thumbsup:

Clear skies

Rod
:D:D

[astronobob]

A very tidy test image Daniel, quality stuff, there is some fair colour about in them stars, blues are good though mild and there is also a hint of lots of yellow stars aswell, and thats is what this Glob is full of, Blue and Yellow gold stars with a sprinkling of red ones ! some saturation techniques and you have a stunning piece of work ?

[Dr. Washington]

Thanks guys, really appreciate the comments. I've been trying to learn PixInsight, and I boosted the saturation levels overall a little for this image. Are there any other methods to get colour out of stars?

[alpal]

I just used LAB colour in Photoshop on your pic - 30 second job
& this is the result.
You have plenty of nice colour there.

[Ross G]

A very good photo Daniel.

Good tracking and guiding.

Great detail and I like the colour.


Ross.