Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  Hercules Globular Cluster  ·  M 13  ·  NGC 6205  ·  NGC 6207
M13 globular cluster in hercules, Remco Kemperman
M13 globular cluster in hercules
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M13 globular cluster in hercules

M13 globular cluster in hercules, Remco Kemperman
M13 globular cluster in hercules
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M13 globular cluster in hercules

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The best M13 I caught so far. In postprocessing I saw that the 2 bright stars are unfortunately blown out. something to keep in mind for the next time or take a few shorter exposures to blend over.

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  • M13 globular cluster in hercules, Remco Kemperman
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B

Description: The core of the clusters seemed a bit too bright to me so I tried an HDR wavelet transform on it. This reveals the stars in the core quite nicely. However it also makes the cluster somewhat flat and 2D.

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C

Description: I blended the 2 versions, the one with and without HDR wavelet transform and blended the HDR version on top with 50% transparancy in photoshop. Best of both world i guess:) It reveals the stars in the core and maintains some of the 3D look because of the brighter core.

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Description: A few bright stars where saturated. In the mean time a learned that convolution can be used to fix ringing artefects on bright stars. And I found that it can also be used to fix saturated stars afterwards. Better to not saturate them in the first place but this works allright

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M13 globular cluster in hercules, Remco Kemperman