M30 turns out to be a Rodney Dangerfield sort of deep-sky target - it seems to get little respect from amateur imagers . That's probably because it lies 23 degrees south of the celestial equator - it never gets above 34 degrees altitude from my site in Southern California. Even so, it is a colorful globular cluster, showing a nice assortment of old yellow stars and "blue stragglers." This image was shot with a 12.5" PlaneWave telescope and a QSI-640ws camera at f/8. The capture time was only 2 hours using RGB filters.
Bruce Waddington