A quickish Omega Centauri

[pvelez (Pete)]

Looking for something to image early in the evenings last month while I waited for my preferred targets to rise, I shot a few images of Omega Centauri.

Here is the result - 4 hours Lum and just under 1 hour each of R, G and B in 5 minute subs.

Taken from my dark sky site near Coona at the iTelescope facility with a PW CDK12.5 and STX16803.

Processed (roughly) in PI.

Here is a link to a larger version.

http://www.pbase.com/equitius/image/156638834/original

Pete

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Nice one Pete! Very bright. Gotta love secondary targets, some of mine come out better than the primary object

[gregbradley]

That's a terrific Omega. How long were the subs? Nicely processed. One suggestion - the framing is potentially good as you framed it to catch that pretty blue star to the right. But if you rotated the image a tad and cropped the image a small amount to go back to square shaped that blue star would be on the diagonal of the image and would present the whole scene more aesthetically.

Greg.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

That's a great shot of Omega Cent Pete

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice one, Pete! It's a nice bright target and doesn't need a lot of fancy processing.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

In your face Omega!

Very nice work Pete!

Cheers,

Justin.

[pvelez (Pete)]

Originally Posted by Rod771

Nice one Pete! Very bright. Gotta love secondary targets, some of mine come out better than the primary object

You are not wrong there Rod.

I haven't imaged OC for years - it was a good decision

Originally Posted by Regulus

That's a great shot of Omega Cent Pete

Thanks

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice one, Pete! It's a nice bright target and doesn't need a lot of fancy processing.

Cheers Rick. I find processing globs tough - do you darken them so as to accentuate the colours or leave them bright to highlight how many stars there - and there are so many!

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

In your face Omega!

Very nice work Pete!

Cheers,

Justin.

Thanks Justin

[pvelez (Pete)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a terrific Omega. How long were the subs? Nicely processed. One suggestion - the framing is potentially good as you framed it to catch that pretty blue star to the right. But if you rotated the image a tad and cropped the image a small amount to go back to square shaped that blue star would be on the diagonal of the image and would present the whole scene more aesthetically.

Greg.

Thanks Greg

5 minuts subs - binned x2 for RGB and unbinned for Lum. I find it hard to justify shifting from that setup as it works well for this rig. I have it pre-programmed in CCD Navigator so its the default setting for all my images.

Can't work out how to rotate in PI (other than by 90 degrees) - though I am sure there is a way. So I cropped and rolled it that way - its not centred and I have cropped more than I would like but I do see how the visual appeal is improved by the framing. I haven't given much thought to that in the past - I'm more interested in finding a guide star - but I see why you are keen on it.

Pete