Just another lagoon in the deep blue.

[Hagar]

I know another lagoon nebula but with the little time available to me at the moment I have to image items I know without too much fuss. These are allowing me to practice and hone my processing skills as the wide field are a little diferent to some degree.

The image is an uncalibrated stack of 8 X 15 minute exposures captured with QHY8, Tak FSQ106ED at F5. Processing using IP3 and PS CS3.

A higher res version is available here; http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/displayimage.php?pid=179&fullsize=1
It is about 1MB beware. 1024 X 690Pix.

Here is a link to a bigger sample. About 1.5MB 3000 X 2000 pix 67% saved JPG for you Fred.

http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/displayi...183&fullsize=1 (http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/displayimage.php?pid=183&fullsize=1)

Hope you enjoy.

[mill]

Very nice wide field Doug :)
Saving for a QHY8 here.

[CoolhandJo]

I am glad you posted this image! Its good and suports your comments regarding good processing. Looks natural and good detail to me!

[Bassnut]

Something wrong there Hager, the file is big, but the image is small on the link. It looks OK in PS when zoomed, but perhaps you could change the image properties so that the link view is bigger?. (BTW, the core looks a bit burnt?)

[CoolhandJo]

Seems to work fine for me. Clicked link and it opens ok

[Hagar]

Hi Fred the linked view is still only 1024 X 690 but is a 100% saved JPG instead of the 50% JPG of the IIS image.

Yes the core is a bit burnt out.

Here is a link to a bigger sample. About 1.5MB 3000 X 2000 pix 67% saved JPG for you Fred.

http://www.darkskyau.com/cm/displayimage.php?pid=183&fullsize=1

[Bassnut]

Hehe, now thats a big pic, and nice too, thanks Doug, nice to view :D

[Hagar]

Thanks Fred and yes it's big for sure.

[Craig_L]

Very nice Doug - lots of detail.

[gregbradley]

Very nice image. FSQ106ED puts the fun into imaging.

It would have been nice to move the Lagoon a bit over to the left so you got that other nebula on the right hand side (I forget the NGC number) fully in the image - that always looks nice.

Greg.

[renormalised]

Nice image, Doug. Does look a little burnt out in the core, but that's easily fixed:D

[strongmanmike]

That is getting closer to what I would expect from your gear Doug :thumbsup:

I hope you don't mind and I know fiddling with other peoples images often actually wrecks them :lol: buuuuut it shows so much potential I had to have a play with it and I came up with a slightly different view. I just thought the stars could be a bit tighter, the colour was a bit red and white with a green tinge and I prefer this orientation..wadgya think? It's still not quite right but I recon it's a pretty good image! :)

Small:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/115378566/large

Large:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/115378566/original

You have some minor focus issues there too, how are you focusing?

Let me know when you have seen enough and I'll delete it from my web site :P

Mike

[Tamtarn]

Honing your processing skills has certainly resulted in a nice image Doug.
Mikes repro version looks good as well.

David

[Alchemy]

good work there doug, the BIG version certainly shows the detail that 200kb cannot.

[multiweb]

Really nice details in the high-res version. Very cool! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Hagar]

Thanks Mike and no I don't mind at all. A bit of feedback on how you arrived at your final image would be great. They look pretty good to me and when pointed out the oversites and things lacking etc are glaringly obvious. Focus at the moment has been a major issue. High fine cloud and even smoke from my own fire place is making focus an issue that I somehow have to overcome. Seems of late the best FWHM figures I can achieve are around the 5 to 6 mark. Being surrounded by quite high mountains does pose it's own atmospheric problems with regard to focus but the dark sky is a big plus. Thanks Mate.



Thanks David. Focus is my main issue but I will work through it some how.



Kind of like the high res version for these wider shots as it shows a bit more of the true detail captured. Thanks Marc

[Hagar]

Thanks Clive. Yes the detail is there just hard to see at 200KB. Sorry I missed you in the multi quote reply.

[h0ughy]

Great image Doug

Mike is a great mentor