[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Oh, that's just beautiful!

Thanks Kevin

Originally Posted by h0ughy

That's very nice, supple and well detailed

Thanks David. I was wondering if you were able to capture the dusty parts imaging at F/2 with your new wide field imaging rig?

Originally Posted by JA

I love the gold and blue and of course the overall vista & detail. Excellent Col

Best
JA

Thanks JA, I was hoping I didn't overdo the saturation for the gold

Originally Posted by Placidus

Wow! Lovely!

As a widefield study of Omega Centauri and surrounds, it is beautiful. The colour in particular is excellent.

(One of my pet peeves is the magically bright blue 10 billion year old Omega that so many people trot out because it looks pretty even though its physically impossible. You've nailed the colour).

The wide field is lovely. I take it that the IFN or dust or whatever that we can see is real? One would expect there to be some, given the direction of the image, but I've not seen it brought out before.

If one misses the point of the image and zooms in, one can start to see a lot of artifact, but if viewed from a meaningful distance, it's lovely. One of the very best top rank widefield omegas in the galaxy!

Very best,
Mike

There are a lot of images of "white" globular clusters out there on the interwebs. It is a lot easier to white balance on a really wide field than it is on the globular itself. The PhotometricColourCalibration script in PI does a good job at getting the colours correct... Sometimes. I find it works well on star clusters but messes up nebulosity areas when using my unmodded DSLR.

The dust is real but you are right, it isn't imaged often. I've only seen one other image that has had it and that was Steve a few years back I believe, he got an APOD for it

You are right about the image break down, just one of those things you get when using a DSLR at 1.5"/pixel and trying to image higher resolution regions. Tried to drizzle integrate and run 10 passes of deconvolution BUT I am finding that deconvolving OSC images gives a very different PSF to that of a mono camera.
This is a wide field imaging setup however so I'm not expecting to even come close to the excellent resolution that you achieved on Omega Centauri.

Originally Posted by willik

Looks good Colin good detail
Martin

Thanks Martin