[AZ-Observing] Re: M13 photo

  • From: Kerry Weatherford <kwx4d@xxxxxxx>
  • To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 7:07:21 -0700

Jon,
That's a stunning photo! Normally I've always felt that globular clusters look 
better visually through the eyepiece than they do in images, but this photo 
dispenses that notion. By far and away the best image of M13 I've ever seen. 
Thanks for sharing.
Best regards,
Kerry Weatherford

---- Jon Christensen <jonc97@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> M13 is riding high in the sky these days and during the last Vekol road star 
> party I decided to get a shot of it. As we all know it is one of the most 
> amazing sights you can see through a scope. I cranked up the saturation in 
> the red channel to bring out some of the red stars mixed in with the blue 
> stars, which is fairly easy to see in the larger version (link at the bottom 
> of the page).
> http://christensenastroimages.com/clusters/m13.htm
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> Thanks,
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> Jon Christensen
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