M35

[OzRob (Rob)]

I am slowly getting through the processing the data I collected on my recent trip to north Thailand and here is today's offering.

This is M35 with its smaller companion NGC2158. I collected 30 minutes in each of RGB in 3 minute subs. Sorry to any purists but I added some diffraction spikes to add some interest.

Thanks for looking.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shot

Stars look nice and round right across the field...round enough for my liking. Good colour too

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Very nice shot .. great color.

Leo

[Lester]

Very nice image Rob, thanks for the view.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

That's excellent Rob, lovely image, the contrasting clusters makes for a great shot and you have handled the processing very well

Maybe add some phsycedelic colours though....

Mike

[troypiggo (Troy)]

That's beautiful.

[Derek Klepp]

As a predominately visual observer (Deepspace) I look foward each year to viewing these two items together. Great to see the colour version.

[CoolhandJo (Paul)]

Lovely crisp and clear shot well done.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great shot Rob. Stars are beautiful and well resolved.

[Paul Haese]

Fantastic image. Every spot on. Larger scale?

[OzRob (Rob)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Fantastic image. Every spot on. Larger scale?

Thanks a lot for the comment. I see you want to find the demons in the closet... The link below is a full res image. It has only been cropped to remove stacking artifacts.

M35 full res

Edited to add: sorry I lied. It is not quite full res. I just remembered I had to reduce the image size to get the right number of stars with spikes on. At full res too many stars were given spikes.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Couldn't you duplicate the layer before adding the spikes, add the spikes to the top layer, then selectively mask them in?

[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by OzRob

Thanks a lot for the comment. I see you want to find the demons in the closet... The link below is a full res image. It has only been cropped to remove stacking artifacts.

M35 full res

Edited to add: sorry I lied. It is not quite full res. I just remembered I had to reduce the image size to get the right number of stars with spikes on. At full res too many stars were given spikes.

Still very nice. Better at a larger resolution. Thanks for doing that.

[OzRob (Rob)]

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Couldn't you duplicate the layer before adding the spikes, add the spikes to the top layer, then selectively mask them in?

Yes and if I had of thought of it at the time I probably would have.... Maybe next time.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Still very nice. Better at a larger resolution. Thanks for doing that.

Thanks to you and everyone for their kind comments.

[RobF (Rob)]

Wonderful image for sure. Reminder to us all not to get fixated on faint fuzzies

[gregbradley]

A lovely star field. Very pretty.

Greg.

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

I like the image very much.

Frank

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Very nice, I observed it yesterday through my 12.5" dobsonian.

Cheers

Werner

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Very nice shot of this cluster Rob. Actually I think this is one image where the star spikes work okay.

Cheers

Steve