M8te from Astrofest (Lagoon Nebula)

[RobF (Rob)]

Squeezed this one in for a couple of nights towards the end of astrofest. About 3.5hrs of HaLRGB. Probably would have rotated the field if wasn't already shooting other objects. Mostly 10min subs QHY9/FSQ.

Comments, fruit or thrown bottles always welcome.

Larger version here: https://goo.gl/photos/7SEeLXayDPZUTgwW7

[Paul Haese]

Looks alright Rob. Star colours pretty good overall. You can see the blue stars in the dark field at the top of the image and the golden fields at the bottom.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Looks great, rob.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice one Rob. can't go wrong with M8.

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Looks good Rob, a nicely presented M8

Geoff

[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Looks alright Rob. Star colours pretty good overall. You can see the blue stars in the dark field at the top of the image and the golden fields at the bottom.

Thanks Paul. Getting a better feel for the min amount of data to pull off the brighter DSOs with this rig finally, and wouldn't want to go much below this many hours now with 10min subs.

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Looks great, rob.

Thanks Troy. Bit of blue halo on the brighter stars in hindsight, but didn't stop me sleeping last night

Originally Posted by multiweb

Nice one Rob. can't go wrong with M8.

You should try shooting this one sometime Marc?

Originally Posted by ozstronomer

Looks good Rob, a nicely presented M8

Geoff

Cheers Geoff. Just nice to have endless clear dark skies to choose from for a change.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Nice resolution and detailed in that M8

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by RobF

You should try shooting this one sometime Marc?

On my to-do list mate.

[RickS (Rick)]

Another nice one, Rob. I thought the star colours were good too.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well no, telltale decon or wavelette artifacts that I can see ... soooo no bottles from me

It's a rather pleasing looking Lagoon Rob and in that orientation I always see Homer Simpsons (or Bart's) profile (looking to the right) DOH!

Mike

[Somnium (Aidan)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well no, telltale decon or wavelette artifacts that I can see ... soooo no bottles from me

It's a rather pleasing looking Lagoon Rob and in that orientation I always see Homer Simpsons (or Bart's) profile (looking to the right) DOH!

Mike

Now that you have mentioned that Mike i can't not see it ! damn pareidolia

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Somnium

Now that you have mentioned that Mike i can't not see it ! damn pareidolia

It's like a curse....I see people in things she was in my lounge room this afternoon

[Somnium (Aidan)]

Nice

[DJT (David)]

Nice image, Rob.looks great.

[RobF (Rob)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Another nice one, Rob. I thought the star colours were good too.

Thanks Rick - pretty happy in the end. Haven't done this one seriously since 2010 with the Newt now I think about it, and never this wider field.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well no, telltale decon or wavelette artifacts that I can see ... soooo no bottles from me

It's a rather pleasing looking Lagoon Rob and in that orientation I always see Homer Simpsons (or Bart's) profile (looking to the right) DOH!

Mike

Ah, there's an artistic side as well as a scientific side to your imaging then Mike! Not enough data for deconv or wavelet magic. Just a bit of masking and saturation and contrast work from memory.

Originally Posted by Somnium

Nice

Thanks for that Aidan.

Originally Posted by DJT

Nice image, Rob.looks great.

Thanks David - hope you mean the Lagoon, not that couch