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Old 01-07-2012, 06:16 PM
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Omega Centauri

Hi all,

I'm new to Astrophotography, bought my setup approximately 8 months ago and have being learning alot through all the mistakes I've made Last night I realised what a huge difference good balance has on tracking, and I produced the attached image of Omega Centauri with some quick exposures. I'm still learning the photo editing side of this, so please feel free to give tips

Exposure was 22x 60sec at ISO 600, no darks or flats so there is a quite bit of noise (this was more of a test photo).
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Old 01-07-2012, 06:48 PM
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Nicely resolved Daniel .. Certainly heading in the right direction thats for sure.
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Old 01-07-2012, 07:26 PM
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Very nicely done. Not that clever at processing globular clusters myself so no tips from me other than there should be some colour tucked away in those stars. Have a shufftie at the inter web which gives you an idea of the colours that are tucked away in there
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Old 01-07-2012, 08:26 PM
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Very nice for a "test" photo. Clear with great colour.
Thumbs up from me Daniel.


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Old 01-07-2012, 10:20 PM
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A very tidy test image Daniel, quality stuff, there is some fair colour about in them stars, blues are good though mild and there is also a hint of lots of yellow stars aswell, and thats is what this Glob is full of, Blue and Yellow gold stars with a sprinkling of red ones ! some saturation techniques and you have a stunning piece of work ?
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Old 01-07-2012, 11:08 PM
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Thanks guys, really appreciate the comments. I've been trying to learn PixInsight, and I boosted the saturation levels overall a little for this image. Are there any other methods to get colour out of stars?
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Old 02-07-2012, 12:15 AM
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I just used LAB colour in Photoshop on your pic - 30 second job
& this is the result.
You have plenty of nice colour there.
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Old 02-07-2012, 05:57 AM
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A very good photo Daniel.

Good tracking and guiding.

Great detail and I like the colour.


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