Pearing deep into the Lagoon

[strongmanmike]

As I like to do :whistle:....these are extreme close-up crops of the Hourglass nebula inside the Lagoon Nebula. The original full frame image was a combination of 20min Red exposure with 30min of Halpha exposure.

I suspected the star next to the hourglass itself was double and a further zoom-in (and the Hubble image) confirmed this.

Of course as usual, this was taken at a modest wide field 1140mm FL :D

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/110317205/original

** There is a link to the original full frame image underneath

Here is the super extreme zoom-in to reveal the double star next to the Hourglass nebula:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/110318471/original



Mike

[Tom Davis]

Excellent detail!

Tom

[multiweb]

Awesome as usual. :thumbsup:

[tornado33]

What make it all the more impressive is that it was taken with a fully portable system :)
Scott

[AlexN]

pwoah... :) that is all.

[RB]

Wow, now that is fantastic !

Onya Mike !

:thumbsup:

[Garyh]

Now that`s a close look!
Made me look at your other Lagoon shots ex "The Heart of Lagoon"
Very nice! Can`t wait for these gems to get higher in the sky!
cheers