Omega Centauri

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Lots of big bright objects to get through in this part of the sky. Hope I can get through a few more before the evil moon or clouds spoil the fun.

SW ED100, Orion 0.8x focal reducer, Baader UV / IR cut, 85 x 1 minute subs, Pentax K-x.

Bigger at Astrobin.
http://astrob.in/103923/0/

[raymo]

Very nice Kevin, but I think that this object is an example of what was mentioned recently. Diminishing returns. I suspect that you would see little or no difference if you reprocessed this image using, say, thirty or
forty subs. I find that globs don't seem to respond as well to high numbers of subs as other DSOs do.
raymo

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Man that's pretty!

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

+1 very pretty

[BruceG (Bruce)]

Fantastic !

[SimmoW (SIMON)]

Nice colours in this.

Raymo is right I suspect. Why not try stacking just 30 or so and see if there's a diff? Just trying to save you time!

[5ash (Philip)]

Hi Kevin,
Nice sharp picture with quite a few coloured stars there.really nice composition. One to keep. Taken pictures of this with DSLRs and a g star , must try with the nightscape and see whether it can do as well as yours?
Regards philip

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks to all.

I actually took many more subs but had to bin a lot due to atmospherics and um... cats chasing each other around the mount. lol.