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Old 01-10-2020, 01:28 PM
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A Lagoon for Moana

Late season M8 from lockdown central - My light polluted suburban backyard, Bortle 7 -Melbourne.

A return to my narrowband roots, just 5+ hrs of data processed with the usual J-P Metsavianio tone mapping and a gentle tweak or two inspired by Eric Coles Histogram balancing method.

Ha>G, O3>B, S2>R

Fortunately, it's a very bright target!

ASTROBIN

PS: The 11 y/o reckons it looks like an Arrakis Sandworm in Space.
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Old 01-10-2020, 01:44 PM
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Quite nice Andy, turned into an interesting colour palette
The outer regions of M8 look great but it appears to have broken down towards the centre.
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Old 01-10-2020, 03:32 PM
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Nice job Andy, a cool Lagoon and a very good choice to get your inner city astroimaging fix I recon

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Old 01-10-2020, 04:19 PM
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Quite nice Andy, turned into an interesting colour palette
The outer regions of M8 look great but it appears to have broken down towards the centre.
Cheers Col - Since you've been a good boy you may have an extra helping of core detail! (same link) Thanks for the feedback

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Nice job Andy, a cool Lagoon and a very good choice to get your inner city astroimaging fix I recon

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Thanks Mike - It's much easier to do NB targets from here than LRGB!
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Old 01-10-2020, 08:39 PM
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Lovely work Andy!
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Nice work Andy and good to see the younger one getting involved
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Old 02-10-2020, 06:09 AM
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Detail is lovely, but I'm going to be a dissenter and say it's a bit too flat for my liking - a little more contrast.

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Old 02-10-2020, 09:36 AM
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Nice one Andy. I like the colours and the subtle pink areas.
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Old 02-10-2020, 09:49 AM
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Very nice Andy, I really like the palette but I have to agree with Col, the outer portion is great but the core looks over processed to me
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Old 02-10-2020, 09:51 AM
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Lovely work Andy!
Thanks Pete!

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Nice work Andy and good to see the younger one getting involved
Ha Ha yes, a proud parent, raised him well! cheers

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Detail is lovely, but I'm going to be a dissenter and say it's a bit too flat for my liking - a little more contrast.

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As ol' Abe once famously said, "You can please some of the people, some of the time" thanks for your feedback.

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Nice one Andy. I like the colours and the subtle pink areas.
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Cheers Greg, nice to bring something new to a classic target
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Andy, we REALLY like that.

Your field of view is much larger than ours, and you've shown wonderful, intriguing features that we've not noticed before, including a double-headed horse head at top right, and a wonderful pillars-of-creation style pillar, rich in OIII, with a sharp shock-front cap at bottom right.

I think you've inspired us to consider a mosaic next year.
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A really nice M8. One for the poolroom.
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Andy, we REALLY like that.

Your field of view is much larger than ours, and you've shown wonderful, intriguing features that we've not noticed before, including a double-headed horse head at top right, and a wonderful pillars-of-creation style pillar, rich in OIII, with a sharp shock-front cap at bottom right.

I think you've inspired us to consider a mosaic next year.
Thanks M&T, it's always a challenge to bring something new to a classic target, so thanks for your encouragement. A mosaic from your 20" scope would be quite something!

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A really nice M8. One for the poolroom.
Cheers Marc, appreciate the nice feedback
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The colour is pleasing Andy. Detail too is nice and sharp and the inner core of the nebula looks punchy without being over cooked.
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An absolutely magnificent image, Andy. I keep staring at it, mesmerised. My first ever-so-humble foray with the ZWO ASI on Sept 18 with just 20 x 10s of the Lagoon is of course, miserably lacking in detail (see Beginners' Photography forum), but this image of yours shows me what is possible, maybe in a few years' time!

Hope you enter this image in a comp or two!

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The colour is pleasing Andy. Detail too is nice and sharp and the inner core of the nebula looks punchy without being over cooked.
Thanks Paul, really appreciate your considered analysis

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An absolutely magnificent image, Andy. I keep staring at it, mesmerised. My first ever-so-humble foray with the ZWO ASI on Sept 18 with just 20 x 10s of the Lagoon is of course, miserably lacking in detail (see Beginners' Photography forum), but this image of yours shows me what is possible, maybe in a few years' time!

Hope you enter this image in a comp or two!

Cheers,
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Cheers Richard, thanks for your warm reception. Your Lagoon is much better than my first attempt
Keep going!
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Very well done!
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