A few nights by the Lagoon

[GodsPetMonkey]

June has been pretty good to me, so I spent a few nights around last new moon chasing the Lagoon Nebula.

I ended up with about 20 hours of capture time over several nights! :eyepop:Very happy with the end results, forum image size restrictions really doesn't do it justice.

Taken using a Pentax K-1 on an Orion ED80T from my suburban Brisbane backyard.

[kosborn]

Very nice! Definitely thumbs up! :thumbsup: Extra points for the patience for such a long integration (although the law of diminishing returns suggests you could have stopped before 20 hours :)).



Kevin

[Anth10]

Grand work.

[rcheshire]

Lovely sharp detail. Very nice.

[GodsPetMonkey]

Yeah, probably went a little overkill, even from my light polluted location. It ended up being a couple of really good nights, so there were not many captures to reject. Half the amount would have likely been just as good (and that would represent two nights of work), but hey, having too much integration time is a good problem to have ;)

[h0ughy]

thats a fair shake of the creature of the deep lagoon

[GodsPetMonkey]

The full sized version (https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1813/42989480871_1f6431b0fb_o.jpg) is that much nicer - I am pretty pleased with the results. It comes in at a little over the size limit for the forum though :P

[xelasnave]

I had a look at the high res just now ..magical image..its just the way I like to see am image as it looks so very real.
Great effort.
alex

[cometcatcher]

Wow, nice image! 20 hours! The only thing is the core looks a little grey to me. Otherwise very fine image.

[blink138]

exceptional!
pat

[blink138]

is that a little reflection nebula at the bottom of the lagoon (pun intended) at 7 o'clock?
pat