The Butterfly Cluster (M6) and Ptolemy's Cluster (M7) in Scorpius

Octane (Humayun) · #1 26-10-2009, 10:04 PM

All,

I went over to JohnG's place on Friday for the weekend. Thanks again, John, for your hospitality!

Whilst waiting for my main target, I managed to grab this whilst the Moon was still up. In fact, the Moon was just north of these troopers.

I know, it's shockingly low on the horizon, but, I thought whilst I was set up I'd take some filler. These are a couple of my favourite open clusters. There's a couple of other open clusters, as well as globular clusters, and, I've managed to nab a Sharpless object, too.

I will re-do this next year.

Read and view here.

Comments, critique, etc., most welcome.

Regards,
Humayun

DavidU (Dave) · #2 26-10-2009, 10:08 PM

H, I always look forward to clicking on your image posts.What a great talent you have. Excellent !
cheers

multiweb (Marc) · #3 26-10-2009, 10:17 PM

That's a great vista H. The colors and the stars are terrific. Top stuff.

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #4 26-10-2009, 10:38 PM

nice one mate, putting us rank amateurs to shame ... again !!

gregbradley · #5 26-10-2009, 10:38 PM

Very nice wide view. So many stars.

Greg.

Ric · #6 27-10-2009, 11:18 AM

Wonderful Humayun, what an awesome amount of stars.

The clusters are almost swallowed up in it.

Top stuff

jase (Jason) · #7 27-10-2009, 12:18 PM

These certainly are getting low in the western sky. You've done great here Humayun. Nice work in maintaining the stellar profiles with their subtle hues. Personally, I'd like to see a little more contrast for the shadows to emphasise the dark dusty areas. Perhaps a s-curve would do the trick. Wouldn't need much though. You could mask it to control the effect if desired. Overall, this is top work.

Cheers

Hagar (Doug) · #8 27-10-2009, 08:07 PM

Very nice H. Loads of the fine detail present but could maybe be picked up a bit with a contrast boost. Colour within the stellar cloud looks great. Very nice.

Lester · #9 27-10-2009, 08:52 PM

Thanks for the view Humayun.

telecasterguru (Frank) · #10 27-10-2009, 08:59 PM

Clarity is the end result. Fantastic.

Frank

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #11 28-10-2009, 10:38 PM

Fantastic H.

Love your work.

Geoffro.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #12 28-10-2009, 11:53 PM

Yep, a great shot that considering, nice to look at cheers

Mike

RB (Andrew) · #13 29-10-2009, 08:41 AM

Nicely done H.
I agree with Jase and Doug, a slight contrast boost would lift it slightly.

Huge amount of stars in there.
Good work mate.