M-13 Globular cluster in Hercules

10” LX-200 @ f/3.3
Genesis KAF-0401
VIS only
10 second exposures

 

  About the time I finished the Genesis, M-13 was in a perfect spot. If a person has to practice on something, globulars are it.

M-13 Globular cluster in Hercules

10” LX-200 @ f/4
Genesis KAF-0401 2x bin
VIS only
LRGB 105:30:37.5:37.5 minutes 90 second exposures

 

  The luminance layer is an average of the RGB layers stretched and with some DDP. The fog rolled in halfway through the green, but I didn't notice until the end of the red, when the stars just vanished. The background never really came up, even though the moon was 76% full. This image in enlarged 1.5x because I didn't get to shoot the 1x binned luminance before the fog came.