M8: Lagoon Nebula

[Pyali]

This years lagoon nebula celebrating 1 year in doing astrophotography :eyepop:
Roughly 15 hours of exposure time

Full res on my astrobin https://www.astrobin.com/full/zj64og/0/

Any tips or critiques? Thanks in advance!

[Nikolas]

What processing did you use? The nebulosity is wonderful

[vlazg]

Well done Pali, sharp and nice processing.

[strongmanmike]

A nice Lagoon Pali...happy anniversary! :thumbsup:

Mike

[Bart]

Nice detail, look like decent processing. :thumbsup:

I would prefer a more saturated version, the colours look a bit muted.:question:

[Pyali]

Thanks Nik, mostly HDR, LHE, Sharpening, darkstructureenhance script (all in pixinsight). If you have any other questions im happy to help!

[Pyali]

Cheers guys! I'm always a bit iffy with my colours/saturation as im mildly colourblind :rofl:

[jayconnor]

mate this is absolutely wonderful. Photos like this is the reason i want to learn more and more. :thanx:

[Placidus]

Well done! The nebulosity is excellent and the dark dust lanes have come out very well. The hour glass is not burned out. Nicely processed.


Colourblindness: I'm fiercely colourblind, one in a thousand. No red vision at all. I rely heavily on the RGB numbers under the cursor. Also extremely helpful is to momentarily swap the red and green channels. This helps to see the (natively) red channel. That's useful for seeing HII regions in galaxies, but it is especially useful for seeing the SII in narrowand images. Sometimes they can be very noisy, but until I momentarily reverse the R and G channels I just don't know how hideous they are. When all else fails, I ask Trish, who says "Lovely, but your galaxies are green, your stars are aqua, and there are brilliantly saturated artifact blobs everywhere".

Best,
Mike

[multiweb]

Really cool M8. :thumbsup: I'd push the stars brightness a little. Make them more punchy.

[rustigsmed]

fantastic nb rendition - also agree you've gone 15 hours on a high signal object, you could easily get away with cranking it a bit more.

[Pyali]

Thanks everyone, I might give it another go after I reprocess some older stuff :thanx::thumbsup: