M13 / Hurcules Cluster

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Comment by John Eckert on March 17, 2011 at 9:34am

Thanks Starhopper. The thing that surprised me the most was the amount of noise in the captures for such short exposures. I do 10 and 15 minute exposures with this camera, with seemingly less noise on the longer exposures. Sigh... Being such a newbie, I have so much to learn.

I still need to find out the name/number of that little galaxy in the lower right portion of the frame.

John

Comment by John Eckert on March 16, 2011 at 4:23pm

Thanks for the compliment Marc. My first try at this was dismal failure over over exposure. I was way too agresive the first time around. Many 60 second exposures seemed to be much better.

Comment by Marc Basti on March 16, 2011 at 4:02pm

That Tak really does a nice job keeping those core stars intact (not to mention good focusing by the operator). Sweet, Marc