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Old 07-07-2014, 08:22 AM
AstroTom (Tom)
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M8 Lagoon Nebula

Ho Everyone,

After photographing the Eta Carina nebula I thought I wuld have a go at the Lagoon Nebula. The result was the photo attached below. This photo is composed of the following:

40 x 30 sec at ISO1600
5 x 60 sec at ISO800
20 darks
20 bias

All stacked in DSS and further processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Unfortunetly I did'nt take any flats mainly as I have no plain white cloths or T-shirts to enable me to take flats. The camera was a modified Canon EOS 600D with a light pollution filter. The telescope was an unguided CPC 800 with a f/6.3 reducer attached. Unfortunetly with my long focal length and even with the reducer attached its very difficult to get the whole nebula in the photo. But I am quite happy with the photo obtained.

Regards,

Tom
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