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.
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.
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!
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!
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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Originally Posted by Decimus
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,
Richard
Cheers Richard, thanks for your warm reception. Your Lagoon is much better than my first attempt
Keep going!