Dates:April 21, 2020
Frames: 45x480" ISO199
Integration: 6.0 hours
Darks: ~10
Flats: ~15
Bias: ~30
Avg. Moon age: 28.08 days
Avg. Moon phase: 2.35%
Temperature: 9.00
Astrometry.net job: 3477867
RA center: 13h 42' 10"
DEC center: +28° 22' 48"
Pixel scale: 1.696 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 273.273 degrees
Field radius: 0.433 degrees
Resolution: 1300x1300
Locations: Garten, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Data source: Traveller
My first globlar cluster. I was not sure what to expect. The center is so bright that I had to reduce the ISO to 200 to avoid overexposure of the center during the 8min subs.
I did the processing in Pixinsight. It was difficult to get the right star masks. I had to use a combination of two masks to cover the bright and the faint stars. Deconvolution was important to sharpen the center with all the tiny little stars. I'm surprised about the different colours of the stars.
The season for the globulars has just started.
Subs for M53 and M5 are already taken and M13 and M92 are going to come ...
Description: New version with optimised (darker) background
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Description: New version with processing from scratch. I aligned the RGB channels and used to the RepairHSV Script to getter better images of the stars right at the beginning. Much more effort was used for Deconvolution. This helped to get the stars resolved in the center. Star masking was quite challenging. I hope you like it! Well, a look with "fresh eyes" this morning showed that the faint stars in the outer part were wiped away by noise reduction. This was better in the first version. It seems I'm not yet finished with these data ...
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