Lagoon and Trifid

[carlstronomy]

Evening all, I have not posted much for a while now but spent my tax refund on a new telescope on the weekend :D

To go with the new scope was clear sky's last night so I took a few frames, stacked and adjusted. I only have 45 minutes of data so the detail is not the best, but I thought I would share what I have.

45 minutes of lights, darks, flats and bias.
Canon 450D
Scope: Skywatcher Evolux ED62 with reducer/flattener fitted.

Really like the scope so for it is great value and a looks like a good travelling scope for those dark sky's when I go camping :)

[PKay]

Hi Carl

I so miss tax returns :rolleyes:

If you moved your scope a bit, you might include NGC6559.

Always a nice widefield to frame up M8, M20 and NGC6559 (not that I have done it).

Happy camping and well done :thumbsup:

[leon]

Nice effort Carl, I do like wide fields, and especially these two, well done.

Leon

[neilbarber]

Nice ... I can't quite get the 2 in with my setup but wonder if I should get something to give me that wider field

[AstroViking]

Hi Carl,


Very nice image.



Cheers,
V

[Dave882]

Nice work Carl. Money well spent :D
Only thing I could recommend I reckon you could boost the colour saturation just a tad to bring out some more of the nebulously. Really nice shot tho

[carlstronomy]

Thanks everyone, much appreciated. Tax checks are awesome, especially ones where your wife lets you spend them on telescope gear :)

Peter, I will have a tweak of positions and try for that. This is my first refractor so I am new to wide field options.

David, my colours are off but not for long. I home modded my Canon 450 and have not got around to placing a new filter in their as yet so it is a little hard to work with. I placed an order for an Astronomik CLS EOS clip on filter last night which should be here for the end of the week :D and that be tax refund all gone, almost :P

[carlstronomy]

Worked back through my old work flows and managed to reprocess the image. I think this one is much better, very easy to forget how you fix things when you have not done it for a while :)