47 TUC - almost

[coldlegs]

Thought I had this one reasonably nailed unit I saw some other ones and realised it was only about 70 percent of it all. Rats! Then I tried my first download to Astrobin and discovered the need for a png file format instead of the tiff I work with. Decided to shrink it to about 8 meg so you could look at a larger version and curiously couldn't see much difference between it and the 58 meg tiff file. Must be something with the windows viewer limiting resolution.
It's a little rough but I love all the stars.

The 8 meg file is here … http://astrob.in/full/20020/

Cheers
Stephen

Scope - Meade 10” F10 SCT
Camera – QHY10C
Guider – Orion Awesome Autoguider
Mount – EQ6PRO

[nandopg]

Hi Stephen,
Great image !! Stars color is very nice as it is your processing, you avoid to burn out the core of the cluster.

Great job,

Fernando

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi Stephen,

I agree with Fernando, well done on the processing in the core.

Cheers,

Justin.

[atalas]

Nice work Stephen!

[LightningNZ]

Nice image.

TIFF is a multi-layer bitmap, i.e. zero compression - work with TIFFs but forget about sharing them. PNG compresses the colour space and is a single layer. JPEG is a single layer and compresses both frequency information and colour (I believe).

Cheers,
Cam

[coldlegs]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
Cheers
Stephen