Lagoon Nebula

[sadia]

Surprisingly last night was just about perfect in melbourne. I set up my equipement thinking fog gonna roll in anymoment but i was out till 5AM and no sign of fog.



Attached is a very quick process on the data i got, a normal stack on the way to work this morning. No calibration done yet. I hope to post another image of this over the weekend after doing a better job with the processing with my little knowledge.

EQ6 Pro, PHD Guided
ED120 main scope, ED80 guide scope
QHY8
2x 20min
12x 10min
Few 3min
Few 2min

Regards
Sad

[troypiggo]

Very nice. I like it.

[kinetic]

Wow, that is quite a crisp result!
Rich set of mono tones in there.

Nice!

Steve

[Astrobserver99]

I tried a few images but gave up. There was a lot of turbulance and mist in my area. Not to mention the dew and cold! You did a good job:)

Cheers, Rob

[dpastern]

That's a very nice image, well done. I'm still new to this, but I wonder if you clipped the black point, the blacks look a bit too dark. Someone correct me if I'm wrong (I'm still learning).

Dave

[AlexN]

looks nice... One question...

QHY8 shot, but black and white result? Shooting through a Ha filter or binning 2x2??

Great result in any case..

[sadia]

Thank you for the kind comments guys.

David you are right. The uploaded imaged looks clipped which might well be due to the fact that i had to compress the image the convert to jpg before uploading it. More over i am quite sure my laptop screen is way off in color.

Alex, I just disaturated the image in PS to make it appear as BW.

I am uploading another version of the image after doing some processing over the weekend. Not totally happy with it, probably i tried to push the curve too much, and red channel is a bit too hight compared to blue and green but i guess my eyes prefers it this way.

[bloodhound31]

Your colour version is better IMO. Lovely and smooth too.

Baz.

[Hagar]

Nice image Sad. The colour image holds way more detail than the mono in this case. I cannot see too much wrong with your colour.
Very nicely captured and processed. I personally wouldn't muck around to much with the multi timed exposure and leave the detail extraction to photoshop. The shorter exposures only add to the noise without adding much to the overall signal.