The Sagittarius Trio - M8, M20 & NGC6559

[Marzogh]

Couldn't think of anything better than this classic trio for first light for my RedCat51.

https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/ZcvgPwFVp2U7_130x130_GHif7zPZ.png

Pictured are the the Lagoon Nebula (M8), the Trifid Nebula (M20) and the fainter NGC 6559. Imaged in narrowband with the Optolong L-enhance filter. The data was collected over 10 hours on multiple days - with the first 3 hours under Bortle class 8 suburban skies (Brisbane) and the remaining 7 hours under Bortle class 1/2 skies on K'Gari / Fraser Island. (You've got to love work field trips in winter!)

Astrobin link: https://astrob.in/full/tmm0n0/0/

[rustigsmed]

looks to be nicely captured Praj but you've lost a lot of information from black clipping your RGB channels.

Cheers

Russ

[Marzogh]

Thanks for the tip Russ, I wasn't sure how far I should clip away. I'll have a play around with photoshop again. :)

[Marzogh]

I shouldn’t have clipped the blacks so much. The image looks much better now. :) Any further suggestions for a newb are welcome! 😁