Lagoon neb

[Remus]

hey all.

here's a new piccy of the lagoon nebula i took the other night. not sure if the focus was spot on but i really enjoyed taking this one since it was the first time i'd seen it!

any comments would be very much appreciated :)

thanks for looking

tom

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50323462@N02/4621378186/

[renormalised]

Not bad at all:) Good shot....looks in focus to me. Colours look good too:)

Only problem you have is some coma on the edges and the tracking might be bit out.

[TrevorW]

good effort well done

[MrB]

Good stuff Tom, colours look good.

[multiweb]

Real nice shot Tom. Colors are spot on and focus/guiding very good too. As Carl mentioned earlier you should correct your field whith some kind of field flattener and you'll be cooking 100%. Very well done. :thumbsup:

[Remus]

renormalised: Thanks :) indeed the edges are quite messy and i think i might have accidently slightly bumped the camera bulb cable woops (yep, still doing manual timed exposures here on the ol' 30D lol).

TrevorW: Thanks a lot :)

MrB: Thank you :)

multiweb: Cheers :) and thank you for the advice on a flattener

I've been looking into flatteners.. I'm still really confused what will actually work on my 110mm refractor. I guess there's only one way to find out. I've read about the WO ones, seems like just the ticket i think..

again a big thanks for looking and advice.. the list of equipment needed never stops!! I guess that's half the allure of this hobby :)

[rogerg]

looks good :) and most importantly enjoyed taking the photo :thumbsup: Main thing to improve on is the coma/distorted stars around the edge, as other have said, and you could just crop it more to hide them :) If you get a WO flatenner do a lot of research - my WO FFv3 doesn't work perfectly with my Megrez 90 APO :(

[gregbradley]

Good image. The lagoon has a nice semi transparent look to it and colours are good.

Greg.

[Bassnut]

Sharp, bright, and dark at the same time. Top work