M13 Hercules Globular Cluster
I've imaged M13 many times, it's a great spring/summer target, high in sky for many weeks. For this image I used a similar combination to one of my first deep sky images, my 3.5" Questar with an uncooled planetary color camera. I'm happy to say that even I can see my improvement from seven years ago www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/14502445861/in/album-... . What has changed? The newer camera lets me get away with stacking lots of short exposures, and the software I use for capture and processing are much more powerful than the tools I used then. But I guess I have learned a lot about how to use these tools... in many ways this image was "easy" but it wouldn't have seemed easy 2 or 3 years ago.
Tech Stuff: Questar 3.5"/unguided/QHY5iii178 color/Sharpcap/4 second exposures with dark subtraction/captured in 32 2 minute livestacks (64 min total integration time)/Processed in Pixinsight finished in ACDSee. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City.
M13 Hercules Globular Cluster
I've imaged M13 many times, it's a great spring/summer target, high in sky for many weeks. For this image I used a similar combination to one of my first deep sky images, my 3.5" Questar with an uncooled planetary color camera. I'm happy to say that even I can see my improvement from seven years ago www.flickr.com/photos/124244349@N07/14502445861/in/album-... . What has changed? The newer camera lets me get away with stacking lots of short exposures, and the software I use for capture and processing are much more powerful than the tools I used then. But I guess I have learned a lot about how to use these tools... in many ways this image was "easy" but it wouldn't have seemed easy 2 or 3 years ago.
Tech Stuff: Questar 3.5"/unguided/QHY5iii178 color/Sharpcap/4 second exposures with dark subtraction/captured in 32 2 minute livestacks (64 min total integration time)/Processed in Pixinsight finished in ACDSee. From my yard 10 miles north of New York City.