Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  M 10  ·  NGC 6254
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M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus, RonAdams
M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus
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M10 a globular cluster in Ophiuchus

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M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus, RonAdams
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M10 a globular cluster in Ophiuchus

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It's been rainy and cloudy the past 4 or 5 days and I haven't been able to do any astrophotography. When that happens I usually look back over images and reprocess

any that I think I can do better. I imaged and processed my original image on 6-17-18. I

like that image so instead of doing a revision on that image I decided to upload this image as a separate image. As I was imaging M10 I was getting good color in my raw files. I noticed that

M10 had an unusual number of yellow/gold stars. I decided to reprocess the image but I would not do any stretching of the data like I normally do. So there aren't as many stars visible in this image. I wanted to try and preserve the color as it came out of the camera. I did crank up the saturation a little and the luminance. Most globular clusters I image seem to have a whiteish core and blue and white stars in the outer regions of the cluster. However M10 seems to have

more yellow stars in the core and also in the outer regions of the cluster. Anyway I kind of liked

the way this image looked and did not manipulate the color at all. I didn't even try to remove noise in the background because I've found that anything I do to an image is going to change the image some. Please enjoy my reprocessed image of M10.

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  • M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus, RonAdams
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  • M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus, RonAdams
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  • Final
    M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus, RonAdams
    D

B

Description: I flattened the background a little.

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Description: Lets try again

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D

Description: Still trying to flatten the background and remove halo around the cluster.

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M10 a globular cluster in  Ophiuchus, RonAdams