[alistairsam]

Originally Posted by Placidus

Very fine! Beautifully sharp, and gorgeous colours in the brighter field stars.

There seems to be a bit of a faint outer halo, which might be due to noise reduction causing the faintest outer stars to blur into each other, or might be due to not quite right flats. I've always found good flats to be very challenging.

Good work!

Thanks, it could be a gradient that I didn't remove properly, there is a "wipe" feature in Startools to remove gradients but it requires the variables adjusted to get optimal removal. It was a quick 20 min processing job, will redo. Yep flats would make a difference. I do have the gerd Neumann El panel. Need to use it. And you're right the nr did blur the outer stars a bit.

Originally Posted by RickS

A nice result already, Al.

Thanks Rick

Originally Posted by Regulus

A very satisfying image Alistair. Lovely star colours. It really is a jewel of a sight that cluster.

Trevor

Thanks Trevor. I look at Mike's image and the hubble image and it's truly incredible. I wonder if anyone would do a 3d render of this.

Originally Posted by billdan

Very nice Alistair, you kept the core under control perfectly. I never get tired at looking at all those stars.

Cheers
Bill

Thanks Bill. A bit of hdr and contrast kept the core in check. The short subs also helped.

Originally Posted by Geoff45

Nice colours and detail Alistair. Globs are great to photograph--short exposures, easy processing, good for fill-ins when you are waiting for your choesen object to get a little higher and a great pic at the end.
Geoff

Thanks Geoff. That's exactly why I did it. Was waiting for the trifid to come up and the forecast wasnt looking good for later . So thought I'd give it a crack. Truly enough the clouds rolled in soon after.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Really nicely done, great star separation and great vivid colors, one of the best Ive seen for some time !!

Top catch

Thanks. I was surprised with how easy the colours were cause I always struggle with it with dso's. Perhaps I'll stick to 3min subs for rgb henceforth for dso's