Thanks everyone, I was pretty happy with this data :-) Finally got some RGB too, so I'll post the HaRGB shortly.
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Originally Posted by kosborn
Great image.  I didn't pixel peep but the SNR and detail suggests you don't need 35 hours exposure time...
Kevin |
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Great detail in there Lee. Having recently done about 2 hours of RGB with a slow F/10 I found it bright enough that I didn't have any issues with signal strength so you're right, 35 hours of Ha may have been a bit of over kill  |
Thanks guys... yeah, 35hrs is definitely excessive for M8, but I had a gap in my schedule of interesting galaxies and since I always go somewhat short in terms of integration time I had decided that
this time I'd not do that...