M23

by Willem Jan Drijfhout

Objects in field: M 23, NGC 6494

Equipment: Planewave CDK14, Moravian Instruments C3-61000 PRO

Integration: 5h 45m

Messier is a nice open cluster in the constellation of Sagittarius. Since the data was collected under mostly full moon conditions, I decided not to collect luminance, and kept the total exposure limited to about 6h. This is the first in a couple of targets using RGB rather than LRGB. So far I like how it came out. For more details about the capture, and a full write down of the processing, feel…