This year's M13

Hello all!

I've been a little behind on catching up with the posts and images on this board. Nice images, everyone!

Here is a "more or less finished" attempt at M13 for the year (unless I go whole hog and try some more later!). This was shot over the Memorial Day weekend as I entertained some company (a visiting cousin, who enjoyed the idea of surfing wirelessly on my patio as I imaged and we gazed with my LX200 while my CCD setup was going).

I rejected some luminance images to bad focus, but I hope I gained some back via the 1x1 binned RGB data.

Equipment:
Takahashi FSQ-106 @f/8 with Extender-Q
SBIG ST-8XE with CFW-8a filter wheel
Takahashi EM200 Temma2
Astrodon LRGB filters

L: 5 x 5 minutes
R: 6 x 5 minutes
G: 6 x 5 minutes
B: 6 x 5 minutes

All data binned 1x1.

Captured, calibrated and combined in MaximDL. Post-processed in Photoshop CS.

1/2-sized image attached.

Comments and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Eric

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Here's a full-size crop of the GC itself.

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There's nothing wrong with that M13 -- a nice, clean, solid capture!

Tom

Eric,
No excuses need for that M13. I really like the wide field view, and your colors are excellent1
Larry

Nicely done Enrico! 8)
The focus seems a little soft, so I applied a lil' bit of Unsharp Mask in Photoshop, and this is what I came up with... hope you'll like it... 8)

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